Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy by Georges Seurat Wassily Kandinsky Selected Views of the Tokaido

Selected Views of the Tokaido Lake by Hasui Kawase exemplifies the serene power of the shin-hanga movement at its most assured

The lily pads float as anchors of form amid the dissolving reflections

Typography anchors the design with quiet confidence

preserving the painting's luminous depth and textural richness on matte fine art paper

Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy by Georges Seurat Wassily Kandinsky Selected Views of the TokaidoPainted at Port en Bessin on the Normandy coast in 1888, this seascape is Seurat's Pointillism at its most atmospheric the harbour rendered in thousands of discrete colour dots that dissolve at viewing distance into shimmering light and still water. The composition is horizontal and tranquil: a low horizon line opens the upper two thirds to sky, boats resting motionless in a bay where the sea barely moves. Seurat's method enforces a particular quality