Color Theory Print – Variations in Printmaking – Takasuke Nakayama, 1990

Artist: Takasuke Nakayama (中山隆介)
Title: Variations in Printmaking
Medium: Mixed-media print (likely lithograph and/or screenprint; pending verification)
Year: 1990
Edition: 3696/4287
Image size: Please inquire
Paper size: Please inquire
Condition: Excellent vintage condition. Signed and numbered by the artist.

Notes:
Using a simple sequence of colored bars, geometric forms, and elegant connecting lines, Takasuke Nakayama transforms the vocabulary of printmaking into a playful visual diagram. References to woodcut, lithography, etching, and screenprinting become part of the composition itself, blurring the boundary between technical illustration and contemporary graphic art. Cleanly designed and unmistakably rooted in late twentieth-century Japanese graphic design, the print has an engaging clarity that rewards both casual viewing and closer inspection.

Keywords: Takasuke Nakayama, Japanese print, contemporary Japanese print, graphic art, printmaking, lithograph, screenprint, color theory, geometric abstraction, modern Japanese art