Pupil of the Eye 5/100
- Date:
- 1931
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Edition:
- Published by Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Art of Japan
Description
"Pupil of the Eye," edition 5 of 100, from 1931, presents the eye in extreme close-up — the iris and pupil filling the composition with an intensity that borders on the unsettling. The pupil itself, that dark opening into the interior of consciousness, gives the print its title and its subject: not the eye as organ of sight but the pupil as site of interiority, the window through which inner life becomes visible. This is among Kobayakawa's most abstractly psychological works.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Pupil of the Eye 5/100 was created by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi (小早川清) in 1931.
Pupil of the Eye 5/100 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo (1931).
Pupil of the Eye 5/100 depicts bijin-ga and portraits.