© Moriyuki Kuwabara
Currently not on view
Drawing,
1975
Moriyuki Kuwabara 桑原盛行, born 1942, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Shōwa era, 1926–1989
2018-106
This mesmerizing lattice with myriad circles applied in fine line was created using a traditional ruling-pen compass. Used as drafting tools from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries, ruling pens are notoriously difficult to control. Here the artist dipped the pen in acrylic pigments of different tones and colors, forming layers and layers of overlapping circles that he built up in an almost meditative process. The intricate lattice is established by the initial positioning of the center point of the circles that are calculated and plotted in advance, as diagrammed at bottom left.
Information
Title
Drawing
Dates
1975
Maker
Medium
Acrylic on paper
Dimensions
63 × 51 cm (24 13/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
frame: 77.5 × 64.8 × 2.5 cm (30 1/2 × 25 1/2 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
Object Number
2018-106
Place Made
Asia, Japan
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
1975– Moriyuki Kuwabara, born 1942.
–2018 Gallery a-cube (Tokyo, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.
–2018 Gallery a-cube (Tokyo, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.
