Staring
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
Description
Staring—like Steady Gaze before it—announces Saito's characteristic mode of attention in its very title. The staring subject is presumably a cat, given the frequency of that animal in his output, its unblinking intense focus on something outside the frame of the image. But staring also describes the artist's own relationship to his subjects—the sustained, undeflected attention through which he extracted formal essentials from architectural and animal subjects that casual observation would miss.
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1932
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Hoshifuri Pine at Zen'yoji Temple in Edogawa (Edogawa-ku Zen'yoji Hoshifuri matsu), from the series "One Hundred Views of Great Tokyo in the Showa Era (Showa dai Tokyo fukei hyaku zue hanga)"
1935
Color woodblock print; oban
Drawing for Rabbit and Boy
1964
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Rabbit and Boy
1964
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Featured in Collections
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Frequently Asked Questions
Staring was created by Saito Kiyoshi (斎藤清).
Staring depicts animals, abstract, and cats.