Unlike representative art, abstract art is not intended to straightforwardly reproduce visible reality. Instead, it uses a visual language of form, color, line, shape, and texture to create compositions. Abstraction exists on a spectrum, ranging from pure abstraction—a complete departure from visual reality—to compositions that only slightly abstract the visible world. Although some elements of abstraction are present in compositions from earlier decades, it only became a mainstream movement in Japan in the postwar period. After a period of wartime censorship, the climate of greater artistic freedom and access to global avant-garde trends helped this style flower in Japanese printmaking.
Objects
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Yoshida Chizuko
Bubbles
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Shinagawa Takumi
Utage
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Yamaguchi Gen
Untitled (Composition with Feather)
