Work

A black-framed abstract painting rests against a textured white wall, propped on a blue-covered ledge beside a pale ceramic teacup. The composition is built from loose, calligraphic gestures in charcoal grey and black over a mottled cream-and-grey ground, with two zigzagging brushstrokes stacked above a looser sworl, a thin band of dull red, and a short streak of green near the bottom; the artist's signature and "81" are inscribed in black at the lower left. Waichi Tsutaka's 1981 oil on canvas titled "Work" reads as spare and gestural, dominated by muted greys and blacks with only small accents of color.