Overlapping
Jiro Takamatsu
Japanese, 1936–1998
1983
A cut-and-torn colored paper and pencil on board collage in which Takamatsu arranges irregular blue fragments and thin orange and dark strips to probe overlap, chance, and the boundary between figure and ground.
You first notice a dense scatter of torn blue shapes hovering over a white ground, the composition punctuated by sharp orange and dark linear strips and delicate pencil traces that make the whole feel both accidental and deliberately choreographed.
Dating from 1983, the piece distills postwar Japanese concerns with materiality and perception, turning humble paper and simple geometry into a quiet investigation of repetition, negative space, and how we read form.
Medium
Cut-and-torn colored paper and pencil on board
Dimensions
20 1/4 x 14 3/8" (51.4 x 36.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Tatsumi Sato
Accession
30.2013
Palette
Art Terms
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