Music
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Typical Price
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
$500–$8,000. Common later works: $500–$2,000. Key value factors: Hagiwara's abstract works are collected by both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
Music renders the auditory experience of sound through visual means — the rhythmic patterns of a musical performance translated into the shapes, textures, and color relationships of the carved woodblock surface. Hagiwara's Music compositions were among his most purely synaesthetic works, the visual representation of sound requiring both abstract compositional freedom and precise technical control. The subject had deep precedent in the modernist tradition of visual music, from Kandinsky's color-sound correspondences to the graphic scores of experimental composers working in Hagiwara's own era.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Music was created by Hideo Hagiwara (萩原英雄).
Music depicts music.
