Anticipation (Uchinarumono)
Yoshida Chizuko
1961
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; artist’s proof
- Dimensions
- 78.5 × 65 cm (30 15/16 × 25 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- woodblock print
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print
About
The thick brushstrokes of orange and black in this print evoke Japanese calligraphy. Its Japanese title, Uchinarumono, roughly translates to “internal,” but the artist wanted to express a feeling of anticipation. In 1961 Yoshida Chizuko had two small children, two and three years old—perhaps she was thinking about watching them grow up.
