"One Hundred Views of Mitate"

What is MITATE?
 MITATE has been a fundamental concept in all Japanese art from the earliest time. Basically, MITATE involves a substitution of the intended subject by something simpler and vaguer.
For example, the austere stones and raked sand of the Japanese garden are specifically designed to suggest a range of meaning, from islands in the sea to tigers crossing a stream, to the solitude of human lives in the infinite.
The breath of possible meanings and the scope for free association permitted to the viewer are the benefits of MITATE.
Nana Shiomi came to London to study at the Royal College of Art in 1989, after several years studying printmaking in Japan. Her theme is "Art about Culture" or "Art about Art". After a period of re-examining Western culture in the early nineties, now she has been considering of her own Japanese culture. She is member of Royal Society of Painter-printmakers, Greenwich Printmakers and Japan Artists Association and mainly exhibits in the UK, Japan and USA.

Number 46, "Chawan"
From One Hundred Views of Mitate series.
Woodcut Print, Edition of 10
Signed, AP (Artist's Proof)
Size 50x50cm
Supplied Mounted

Price: £180