Slab Sculpture
Morino Taimei
Asian Art
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.
MEDIUM
Ceramic, wood, and platinum leaf
DATES
1990
PERIOD
Heisei Period
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)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
2013.83.16
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Shelly and Lester Richter
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Shelly and Lester Richter, 2013.83.16. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 2013.83.16_front_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
front, 2013.83.16_front_PS9.jpg., 2019
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