Artist field note

Kazuo Shiraga

Painting becomes a test of the body.

Appears inJapan
Work II by Kazuo Shiraga
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Work II

1958

Paint dragged by suspended feet records weight, speed and instability without illustrating them.

The five in one idea

Shiraga made the painted surface evidence of an encounter between material, gravity and the whole body.