Collection

Landscape with an Eye

AI-MITSU

1938

Information

Title
Landscape with an Eye
Artist
AI-MITSU View artist Information
Year
1938
Collection
Purchased
Medium
oil on canvas
Size(cm)
102.0×193.5
Collection ID no.
O00442

Commentary

What is this hulking mass with its striking single eye? A close look reveals that the boundary between it and the sky was corrected many times. Overlapping, flowing curved lines and vestiges of scraped-off paint can also be seen. The work may appear to be unfinished, but the artist has signed it on the lower right, indicating that this was the final form he intended. Here there is a nameless something that cannot be identified. Stare at it long enough in hopes of unraveling its mystery, and you may gradually begin imagining various things. In some ways this is a vicarious experience of the artist’s protracted battle with the painting.

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