About This Print
Ay-O has made a number of variously titled prints, paintings and sculptures showing anatomically correct male and female figures. In this artist's proof, a vibration of color links the two figures. It is one of ten prints in the series Rainbow Night (shown below.)
In discussing this series, Ay-o states:
In this series...I wanted to express a certain order...in the same way that time slowly elapses.
I used cut-out dolls when I was drawing the ten prints of Rainbow night. When I made Rainbow night 1 [pictured below] I also had the objective of mixing all these together and making them fulfill the role similar to a table of contents for a series.
Rainbow night 8 is an angle taken from above of a man and a woman facing upward. Moreover, the form of the man and woman in Rainbow night 8 is a completely identical silhouette. Hair, breasts, and male genitals deceive the eye.1 |
1 Ay-O's Rainbow Prints: Catalogue Raisonne, 1954-1979, Sadajiro Kubo, Sohbun-sha, 1979, p. 86
Rainbow Night Series
Rainbow night 2
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Rainbow night 3
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Rainbow night 4
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Rainbow night 5
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Rainbow night 6 |
Rainbow night 7 |
Rainbow night 8
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Rainbow night 9
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Rainbow night 10
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A Few Other of Ay-O's "Anatomically Correct" Works
Debu Fatty, 1975
Oil on canvas, 100.0×100.0 cm
Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art Japan
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Ay-O exhibition gallery at 2012exhibition Ay-O: Over the Rainbow Once More at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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For Yoko - peace sign - for John |
Print
Details
| IHL Catalog |
#817 |
Title (description)
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Rainbow Night 8 (title as given in artist's print catalogue raisonee)
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| Series |
Rainbow Night
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Artist
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Ay-O (b. 1931)
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| Signature |
Ay-O (pencil lower right)
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| Seal |
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| Publication
Date |
1971
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| Edition |
artist proof
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| Publisher |
Nantenshi Gallery i南天子画廊 [edition エディション ] |
| Printer |
Tokozo Okabe 徳園 岡部 (Okabe Print Editions) |
| Impression |
excellent |
| Colors |
excellent |
| Condition |
excellent
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Genre |
modern print - silkscreen
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| Format |
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| H x W Paper |
21 3/8 x 29 in. (54.3 x 73.7 cm )
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| Collections This Print |
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| Reference Literature |
Ay-O's Rainbow Prints: Catalogue Raisonne, 1954-1979, Sadajiro Kubo, Sohbun-sha, 1979, p. 87, cat. no. 219.
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last updated:
4/13/2019
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