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Form No. 5: Affection for Shapeless Things

Print featuring a beige hand at left with broad swirls of blue and a thin winding brown line above and below.

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  • Print featuring a beige hand at left with broad swirls of blue and a thin winding brown line above and below.

Date:

1948

Artist:

Onchi Kōshirō
Japanese, 1891-1955

About this artwork

Onchi Kōshirō used his own hand to make this print—one of only two in the edition—and reportedly viewed it as an early experiment in not using woodblocks. He created the “shapeless things” of the title with cloth dipped in a blue-gray ink and string dipped in brown, while his hand may signify “affection.”

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Onchi Kōshirō

Title

Form No. 5: Affection for Shapeless Things

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1948

Medium

Object print

Dimensions

55.7 × 45.7 cm (21 15/16 × 18 in.)

Credit Line

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment

Reference Number

1979.626

Extended information about this artwork

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