Group of Owls

1959

Shikō Munakata

Associated Names
Shikō Munakata

Artist, Japanese, 1903 - 1975

There are bold, chaotic black lines and shapes on a light background in an abstract composition. The shapes and lines resemble faces or masks, with prominent eyes and horn-like features. The arrangement of the lines creates a sense of movement and energy, and scattered characters or symbols in black are at the lower left corner adding a calligraphic element to the image.
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Bibliography

2002

  • Singer, Robert T. and Kakeya Nobuho. Munakata Shikō: Japanese Master of the Modern Print. Kamakura, Japan, 2002: fig. 9.

Wikidata ID

Q65577401

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