Dirt
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Honolulu Museum of Art
$500–$4,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Ono's socially conscious prints and urban scenes are valued for both artistic quality and historical interest.
An evocative and ambiguous title from one of Ono's more abstract works, suggesting earth, grit, and the raw texture of the physical world. Ono's engagement with materiality extended beyond subject matter to process — the grain of the woodblock itself, the resistance of the gouge, the variable pressure of printing all contributed to a surface that carried the marks of labor. A print titled "Dirt" may foreground exactly that quality of physical presence.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dirt was created by Tadashige Ono (小野忠重).
Dirt depicts landscapes and abstract.
![TItle unknown [bridge and houses in front of yellow sky] by Tadashige Ono](https://1.api.artsmia.org/800/132624.jpg)
