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          HAMANISHI Katsunori (浜西勝則, born ).

        1. HAMANISHI Katsunori (浜西勝則, born ).
        2. PROVENANCE: Hanga Ten Gallery, London.
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        4. Works by three of Japan's most esteemed printmakers, Susumu Endo, Katsunori Hamanishi, and Yoshikatsu Tamekane are on view at the Williams Gallery Annex.
        5. In his early prints, Hamanishi created quietly suspenseful compositions out of twigs, branches, rice stalks, ropes, and knots, all thrown into.

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          Katsunori Hamanishi



          Katsunori Hamanishi Biography

          KATSUNORI HAMANISHI BORN 1949

          HAMANISHI is regarded as one of the most prominent Artists of our time, working in the demanding, difficult and time-consuming medium of Mezzotint.

          His Work is sometimes reminiscent of traditional Japanese screens that adorned the castles and mansions in historical Japan – using images of nature and embellished by gold.

          From the rich dark background created by the mezzotint technique, warm colors of red, green, burgundy emerge, often enriched with silver and gold; vibrant contrasts are created by the use of flat areas of color and fine linear detail of river, tree, rice plants and, in the latest work, planets and the moon.

          A mood of contemplation and a sublime relationship with nature and time is apparent in Hamanishi’s work: sunrise and sunset, dawn and dusk, night and day.

          In earlier work, meticulously worked mezzotint details of metallic constructions, branches, rope and abstract co