Cat and Ball
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Description
A cat, eternally self-contained, bats at or contemplates a ball in this small, warm print. Kitaoka brings his characteristic formal economy to domestic subject matter: the cat's body is a study in curved surfaces and watchful stillness, the ball a simple sphere that introduces a note of play. Such intimate subjects appear throughout his oeuvre alongside the grander ambitions of his landscape and travel prints, suggesting an artist at ease moving between the monumental and the quotidian.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cat and Ball was created by Fumio Kitaoka (北岡文雄).
Cat and Ball depicts animals and cats.