Painted Dolls
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- ukiyo-e.org
Description
Traditional Japanese painted dolls — kokeshi, hina, and other ceremonial figures — are assembled in a composition that studies their collectively uncanny expressiveness. Sekino's interest in dolls and puppets runs through multiple print series, finding in these human-shaped objects a condensed form of the same questions about identity, representation, and the gap between face and feeling that animate his portraiture.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Painted Dolls was created by Jun'ichiro Sekino (関野準一郎).
Painted Dolls uses Nishiki-e, Moku-hanga, and Kento, on woodblock print.
Painted Dolls depicts still life and daily life.