Usuyuki

Mediums: lithography.
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, the USA.

Throughout the 1970s, Jasper Johns often experimented with various graphic techniques. Many of his works, including “Usuyki”, look like a wholly shaded in different directions surface without a hint of any objects. The artist loved Japanese culture and often travelled to the land of the rising sun, stayed in Tokyo for several months, carefully studying the local artistic customs. The name of the work is translated from Japanese as “little snow”, and the work itself is a subtle gradation from dark to light and vice versa, causing associations with this weather phenomenon.