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Impromptu No. 4 by Onchi Kōshirō — VisualArtsDB

Impromptu No. 4

Impromptu No. 4

Onchi Kōshirō

1951

Medium: Wood and object print
Dimensions: 60 × 45.3 cm (23 5/8 × 17 7/8 in.)
Genre: woodblock print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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Japanese (culture or style)

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printasian artJapanese (culture or style)woodblock print

About

This print is part of a series called Impromptu, in which Onchi Kōshirō explored how chance affected his compositions. Most of the works in this group feature an impression of a string that was dipped in pigment and then allowed to fall naturally. Here, the string was the last element to be printed and was not part of his original design.

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