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Working with Right Principles

勸以義

2009

Takaki Seiu 高木聖雨

(Japanese, born 1949)
Culture
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Medium
ink on paper
Measurements
Sheet: 97 x 170 cm (38 3/16 x 66 15/16 in.); Image: 97 x 110 cm (38 3/16 x 43 5/16 in.); Framed: 110 x 181 cm (43 5/16 x 71 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist 2011.19
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Takaki Seiu was a student of Aoyama Sanu, whose calligraphy is also in the CMA collection. See 2011.16
and 2011.17.

Description

These three characters, read from right to left, are a quote from an annotation of The Book of Songs, the oldest Chinese classical poetry anthology. The phrase means to use reason and logic when advising others. The characters are brushed in an abstracted version of a calligraphic style called seal script, an ancient Chinese mode of writing.
Horizontally long white paper inked with thick, black Japanese characters that streak at the edges (see "Description"). In the lower left corner sits a square, red stamp comprised of more characters, with a speck of splattered black ink showing through it. Some splatters extend to the edge of the paper on our left.

Working with Right Principles

2009

Takaki Seiu

(Japanese, born 1949)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)

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