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.)
I do not know if this print was ever editioned, as the copy of the print shown in the artist's print catalogue raisonee is also marked as an artist proof.
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 |
unknown
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| 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. 86, pl. 87.
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