Nontitle 2
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- wbp
Typical Price
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Tajima's powerful abstract prints have appeal among both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Tajima's powerful abstract prints have appeal among both Japanese print and modern art collectors.
"Nontitle 2" is an act of deliberate refusal: Tajima names the absence of a name, calling attention to the convention of titling and choosing to bypass it. In doing so, he foregrounds the visual experience itself, stripped of the interpretive scaffolding a title usually provides. This is a characteristic sosaku-hanga move — asserting the artwork as autonomous object rather than illustration of a concept — and it places particular demands on the viewer to arrive at meaning through looking alone.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Nontitle 2 was created by Hiroyuki Tajima (田島博之).
Nontitle 2 depicts abstract.
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