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Details
- Alternative title
- Forme No.11 Red
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Date
- October 1949
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour woodcut
- Dimensions
- 51.1 x 40.8 cm image; 54.2 x 47.2 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r., ink [stamped] "ONZI".
Dated l.r.coener, pencil "... / Oct-49".- Credit
- Yasuko Myer Bequest Fund 1998
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 248.1998
- Copyright
- © Estate of ONCHI Kôshirô
- Artist information
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Onchi Kōshirō
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About
ONCHI Kôshiro is arguably the most important printmaker in modern Japan and the first Japanese artist to work in abstract expression with his 'Bright hours' made in 1915. An art student who admired works by Takehisa Yumeji, Onchi first emerged as a printmaker with 'Tsukuhae', a magazine of prints and poetry with TANAKA Kyôkichi and FUJIMORI Shizuo in 1914. The magazine ceased in 1915 with TANAKA's death, but it marked a major step in the Creative Print Movement (Sôsaku Hanga Undô) which had begun during the first decade of the 20th century by artists who took up the print as means of self expression rather than as means of reproduction of images. In this context, the magazine marked the beginning of the expression of emotional and psychological anxiety in the creative print movement. Onchi pursued his interest in abstract expression whilst continuing to produce figurative works.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Onchi Kôshirô-to, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, 20 Jul 1976–15 Aug 1976
Hanga: Japanese creative prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Oct 2000–07 Jan 2001
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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AJIOKA, Hanga: Japanese creative prints, '1930s-1950s: Consolidation of Hanga and the individualists', pg. 70-98, Sydney, 2000, 89 (colour illus.), 103, 110. cat.no. 4.15
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The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Editor), Onchi Koshiro-to 'Tsukuhae', Kyoto, 1976, not paginated (illus.). cat.no. 150 In this publication this work is titled 'Form No.11: About Red'.
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Editor Unknown (Editor), Onchi Koshiro Hangashu, Tokyo, 1975, 171 (illus.). cat.no. 312
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