{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"3426"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"© Hiroyuki Doi"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of the artist and Phyllis Kind Gallery"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"2003"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2005    20    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2005.20.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Ink on paper"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Tokyo"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/2969/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"2969"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Untitled"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Tokyo"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"In the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution incited a counterreaction among creative communities to combat the coldness of machine production with the touch of the handmade object. The Japanese artist Hiroyuki Doi cites a similar rebellion against technology and computerized society as the major influence in his artmaking. At some point Doi\u2019s idiom of tiny circles took on an animation of its own, as though he were keeping the world itself alive through the multitudinous circles that assumed dimensions of galaxies, topographies, and natural forces: \u201cI believe human work using human hands has to be emphasized more. By drawing, I started to feel relief; at some point I started to feel that something other than myself allowed me to draw these works. Suppose every creature is a circle, how many of them can I draw? That is my life work and my challenge. I have to keep on working; otherwise nothing will be brought into existence. By drawing circles I feel I am alive and existing in the cosmos.\u201dStacy C. Hollander, \"Untitled,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":"Works on Paper"},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Tokyo"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"154577"},"geographyState":{"value":""},"geographyCountry":{"value":"Japan"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"499","content":"Hiroyuki Doi"}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Drawings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"In the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution incited a counterreaction among creative communities to combat the coldness of machine production with the touch of the handmade object. The Japanese artist Hiroyuki Doi cites a similar rebellion against technology and computerized society as the major influence in his artmaking. At some point Doi\u2019s idiom of tiny circles took on an animation of its own, as though he were keeping the world itself alive through the multitudinous circles that assumed dimensions of galaxies, topographies, and natural forces: \u201cI believe human work using human hands has to be emphasized more. By drawing, I started to feel relief; at some point I started to feel that something other than myself allowed me to draw these works. Suppose every creature is a circle, how many of them can I draw? That is my life work and my challenge. I have to keep on working; otherwise nothing will be brought into existence. By drawing circles I feel I am alive and existing in the cosmos.\u201dStacy C. Hollander, \"Untitled,\" exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"2003"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"2003"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - Sunday, September 5, 2010","exhibitionEndISODate":"2010-09-05","exhibitionID":"147","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2009-10-06","exhibitionBeginDate":"2009","exhibitionTitle":"Approaching Abstraction","exhibitionEndDate":"2010"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Sunday, September 2, 2012","exhibitionEndISODate":"2012-09-02","exhibitionID":"149","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2012-01-17","exhibitionBeginDate":"2012","exhibitionTitle":"JUBILATION an act of rejoicing | RUMINATION an act of contemplation","exhibitionEndDate":"2012"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - Sunday, March 19, 2006","exhibitionEndISODate":"2006-03-19","exhibitionID":"133","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2005-09-14","exhibitionBeginDate":"2005","exhibitionTitle":"Obsessive Drawing","exhibitionEndDate":"2006"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Sheet: 55 x 27 \" (139.7 x 68.6 cm)"}}]}