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Title
Date
Painting
,
9
August
,
1968
.
Alternative Title
9
Ago
68
.
Creator
Kawara, On (Japanese conceptual artist, born 1933, active in the United States)
Date
1968-08-09
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Conceptual
Theme
Paintings (visual works)
Acrylic paintings (visual works)
Conceptual art
Text (layout feature)
Words
Capital letters
Letters (signs)
Lettering (layout features)
Typefaces (type forms)
Numbers
Numerals
Punctuation marks
Dots
Subject
Paintings
Acrylic paintings
Lettering (Layout features)
Numerals
Punctuation
Polka dots
Description
"
Each
of On
Kawara's
Date
Paintings
is
individualized
to
some
degree
.
Typefaces
vary
, as
do
the
colors
. They are
always
horizontal
in
format
but
each
one
corresponds
to
one
of
eight
predetermined
sizes.
"
(Caption
,
p.178)
; "
Much
as
Conceptualists
railed
against
[…]
assimilation
, they were
curiously
attracted
to
bureaucratic
language
. The
redundant
aesthetic
formulas
of
Modernism
were
transformed
into a
babble
of
systems
and
statistics
. On
4
January
1966
, for
instance
, the
Japanese-born
On
Kawara
started
to
produce
'date
paintings'
on an
almost
daily
basis
. As
tokens
of his
continuing
existence
they
took
the
day's
date
as their
subject-matter
. He also
produced
a
ten-volume
book
which
listed
one
million
years
counting
back
from
1971
, the
year
it
was
produced.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.178)
Material
Liquitex on canvas
Liquitex
Acrylic paint
Paint
Canvas
Measurements
20.5 x 25.5 cm
Technique
Painting (image-making)
Inscription
The text reads: 9 AGO.68
Work Type
Paintings
Acrylic paintings
Conceptual art
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.178, fig.91)
Rights
Photo Rudolf Nagel. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. (1990/2)
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
826-02.jpg
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