Slab Sculpture
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Object Label
Morino Taimei makes vessels and sculptures with strong silhouettes and colorful surfaces. For much of his career, Morino has experimented with the vertical slab form, piercing it and decorating it with novel textures and bright colors. The monolithic quality of this slab is lightened by the window with its playfully painted loops and by the black shapes that seem to take bites out of the sides. The artist has compared the size and shape of these pieces to the tabletop pictorial screens that were once displayed on the desks of scholars in East Asia.
Caption
Morino Taimei Japanese, born 1934. Slab Sculpture, 1990. Ceramic, wood, and platinum leaf, with base: 20 1/4 × 18 7/8 × 5 3/4 in. (51.4 × 47.9 × 14.6 cm) without base: 18 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (46.4 × 41.6 × 6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Shelly and Lester Richter, 2013.83.16. Creative Commons-BY
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Slab Sculpture
Date
1990
Period
Heisei Period
Geography
Place made: Japan
Medium
Ceramic, wood, and platinum leaf
Classification
Dimensions
with base: 20 1/4 × 18 7/8 × 5 3/4 in. (51.4 × 47.9 × 14.6 cm) without base: 18 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 2 3/8 in. (46.4 × 41.6 × 6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Shelly and Lester Richter
Accession Number
2013.83.16
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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