Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Kaitlyn Parker Yellow dominates this composition with

Yellow dominates this composition with the force of a sustained musical note – radiating outward through the picture plane

balancing botanical detail with bold colour and decorative rhythm

flower-covered surface

Painted at the height of the Vienna Secession in 1907–08

building a picture that feels like memory and manifesto simultaneously

Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Kaitlyn Parker Yellow dominates this composition withCamellia japonica, with its precise, formal petals, was a favourite subject in both Japanese painting and early botanical photography and Kazumasa's striped variety is a particularly striking example. The flowers are caught in their prime: petals patterned in clean stripes of crimson and white, the geometry almost architectural in its regularity. His collotype process reproduces the pigmentation with a fidelity that no hand coloured engraving could