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Tomie Ohtake 大竹富江
Untitled 無題
1960
Japanese-born Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake produced over thirty canvases in her Blind Painting series in the late 1950s and the early 1960s. The series is unusual in her body of work, which includes both figurative and abstract landscape paintings. Ohtake painted each work blindfolded, relying on chance, her body, and the brush to communicate her perception of the world. The colours used in this particular painting are characteristic of the palette of the series, consisting largely of white, black, and gray. Painted with highly gestural strokes, the Blind Paintings are a result of the artist’s effort to directly and spontaneously convey emotion. Ohtake developed the series at a time when artists in Brazil were reacting against the concrete art movement’s emphasis on objectivity and visual control. The Blind Paintings sit in contrast with the work of her contemporaries in Brazil, but connect with forms of gestural abstraction produced around the same time in other parts of the world.
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