Improvisation No. 3: Line
- Date:
- 1951
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
"Improvisation No. 3: Line" of 1951 pursues the musical analogy that structured Onchi's late abstract work — the improvisation as a composition made in the moment, following formal impulse rather than preconceived plan. "Line" specifies the formal element given primacy in this composition: the quality, movement, and expressive character of drawn or printed lines as independent subjects, not boundaries around shapes or edges of forms. Onchi's engagement with line as pure formal element placed him in dialogue with international abstraction of the period, particularly gestural abstraction.
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Improvisation No. 3: Line was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎) in 1951.
Improvisation No. 3: Line depicts music and abstract.