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Maki Haku

Maki Haku (1924 - 2000) was active/lived in Japan.  Maki Haku is known for Painting, prints.

Maki Haku (1924–2000) is the artistic name of Maejima Tadaaki, who was born in Ibaraki Prefecture. He was a sosaku-hanga artist in 20th Century Japan.  During World War II, Maejima Tadaaki was trained as a kamikaze pilot in the Japanese air force, but the war ended before he was assigned a mission.  Haku had no formal art training, but studied for two years with the sosaku-hanga artist Onchi Koshiro (1891–1955).

Two unique qualities of Maki Haku prints are the textures achieved by working the designs in wet cement and the use of Kanji (Chinese characters) as design motifs.  In 1962, he started adding texture to his prints. At first, he added texture to the entire sheet after it was printed. In 1965, he began embossing designs into unprinted paper by using a press to transfer a design created in cement on a carved plywood board, and then adding color with stencils.  He distorted and rearranged the strokes of Chinese characters to produce striking and serene im   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1870 characters.]  Artist bio

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