No Sound C
This piece is the third in Hayashi’s series of black and gray coil-built trompe l’oeil “boxes,” a group that was inspired by his experience flying without lights at night as a kamikaze pilot. Made to commemorate his father’s death, this work presents new ways of looking at three-dimensional forms. Hayashi trained in the Japanese style of painting prior to World War II. After the war he became fascinated by avant-garde Western artists, including Pablo Picasso, whose work influenced his early ceramics. He then developed the spare, abstract style that characterizes his mature art. The artist created this piece’s surface patterning by masking certain areas and using an atomizer of his own design to spray glaze onto the stoneware before firing.
Artwork Details
- 林康夫作 「No Sound C」
- Title: No Sound C
- Artist: Hayashi Yasuo (Japanese, born 1928)
- Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
- Date: 1992
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Stoneware with black slip
- Dimensions: H. 11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm); W. 16 in. (40.6 cm); D. 14 in. (35.6 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Halsey and Alice North, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.166.1
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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