Ducks by Gōyo Hashiguchi Paul Klee Muted greens and silver-greys dominate

Muted greens and silver-greys dominate the palette

Kandinsky believed colour and form could function like music

This piece is a vintage advertisement illustration for lamps by Reijer Stolk

clean line and flat color that made Wiener Werkstätte graphics so distinctive

the delicate tonal graduation of Hasui's woodblock technique — the soft atmospheric sky

Ducks by Gōyo Hashiguchi Paul Klee Muted greens and silver-greys dominateThough best known for his bijin ga portraits, Hashiguchi Gyo brought the same exacting sensibility to this study of ducks resting at the water's edge. The composition is unhurried birds settled in shallow water, reflections broken by gentle ripples, the background fading to a luminous near white. Every form is resolved with the patience of the shin hanga tradition: contours that are clean without being hard, colour areas that hold their edges while