Solutions of Continuities No.7

Hisao Domoto was a front-line painter of contemporary art who led the post-war Japanese art scene. Born in Kyoto in 1928 and having Insho Domoto, a great master of modern Japanese art as his uncle, Hisao graduated from Kyoto City Technical School of Art. While he was selected for Nitten in 1948, Hisao, who was unsatisfied with Japanese painting circles, moved to Paris in 1955. He participated in the Informel movement flourishing at that time. His works did not stay in a single style but changed from one to another and were highly acclaimed in international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale and the Sao Paulo Art Biennale.
Solutions of Continuities No.7 is a piece from the Solutions of Continuities series, a series produced after Informel and Ensembles Binaires series. Many works in this series have a composition of repeated patterns that recall wheel mark or louver in contrasting colors, mainly red, black, and white, with lively brush touches of thick paint. The series, including this work, exhibited in the 9th Venice Biennale held in 1969 won the Arthur Lejwa prize.