Biography
Born in present-day Yokohama, he moved to France in 1919 (via the United States) to learn copperplate printing, and never returned to Japan. According to one source his work showsthe influence ofChagall Marc Chagall; russian: link=no, Марк Заха́рович Шага́л ; be, Марк Захаравіч Шагал . (born Moishe Shagal; 28 March 1985) was a Russian-French artist. An early modernism, modernist, he was associated with se ..., Dufy, Laboureur,Pascin Julius Mordecai Pincas (March 31, 1885 – June 5, 1930), known as Pascin (; erroneously or ), Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen. ...,Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...and Edouard Goerg Alas. He revived the so-calledMezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the '' intaglio'' family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzotint achieves tonali ...technique and found the power and the depth of black in wood engraving. Works such as Hasegawa's come from the heart. His art is subtle and delicate. It is an ideal created in the silence of the workshop with memories of the recent past, transposed by the sharpness and delicacy of Oriental sensibilities.
Distinctions and awards
*Gold Medal at the International Exposition, Paris, 1937 *References
Further reading
* Hasegawa Kiyoshi Hanga sakuhin-Shû 'oeuvre gravé de Kiyoshi Hasegawa Bijutsu Schuppan-Sha, Tokyo, 1981. * Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Hakuchû ni Kami wo miru oir Dieu dans la lumière Hakusuisha, Tokyo, 1982. * A propos de l’oeuvre gravé de Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Fondation Taylor, 25/06 – 18/07/1998, Ed. Fondation Taylor, Paris, 1998. * Groult, Martine, Etude de la correspondance française de Kiyoshi Hasegawa, 1998 (Travail de pré-inventaire).External links