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Sadamasa Motonaga, who very early in his career aspired to become a manga artist, drew heavily from doodles in his paintings. Anthropomorphic shapes he sketched in notepads often served as a starting point for the abstract poured paintings the artist was known for during and just after his time with the Gutai Art Association. Line Line Line resembles a page lifted directly from a sketchbook, with many whimsical shapes and lines. This painting, made eight years after he left Gutai and before he began painting cartoon-like pods, demonstrates a transitional phase in his style, applying fewer paints more deliberately and embracing playful forms. Unlike the poured paintings whose drippage shows their process and the accumulation of time, this painting functions very differently as a representation of layered, interrupted ideas.
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- Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 251.
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Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/19/18.
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- Dallas Museum of Art~Review the DMA's 2015 exhibition, Between Action and the Unknown: the Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga.
- post (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives)~Explore an interview from 2008 with Motonaga.
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General Description
Sadamasa Motonaga, who very early in his career aspired to become a manga artist, drew heavily from doodles in his paintings. Anthropomorphic shapes he sketched in notepads often served as a starting point for the abstract poured paintings the artist was known for during and just after his time with the Gutai Art Association. Line Line Line resembles a page lifted directly from a sketchbook, with many whimsical shapes and lines. This painting, made eight years after he left Gutai and before he began painting cartoon-like pods, demonstrates a transitional phase in his style, applying fewer paints more deliberately and embracing playful forms. Unlike the poured paintings whose drippage shows their process and the accumulation of time, this painting functions very differently as a representation of layered, interrupted ideas.
Excerpt from
- Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 251.
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Web Resources
- Dallas Museum of Art~Review the DMA's 2015 exhibition, Between Action and the Unknown: the Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga.
- post (Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives)~Explore an interview from 2008 with Motonaga.
Notes
Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/19/18.
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