by Ansei Uchima
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Uchima's luminous landscape prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese prints and modern American art.
Rumor is a woodblock print whose title names something immaterial and social rather than physical — a piece of information passed from person to person, gaining or losing substance with each transmission. As an abstract subject, rumor invites visual treatment through instability, multiplication, and the degradation of clear form: an image that replicates and distorts as it spreads across the print surface. Uchima's choice of this conceptual subject reveals the philosophical ambitions behind his abstract work — the prints are not merely formal exercises in color and shape but attempts to give visual form to experiences that are fundamentally non-visual.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Rumor was created by Ansei Uchima (内間安瑆).
Rumor depicts abstract.
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