Title:
In the evening
Creator/Contributor:
Hibi, Hisako
Date:
3/1/1944
Identifier:
96.601.40
Format:
painting
oil on canvas
Description:
Unframed stretched canvas. Image of a person by barracks. The door of the barrack is white in color. The person is wearing
red. There is a mountain and moon in the background.
Historical Note:
A tiny figure in red darts across the landscape of this painitng, about to disappear behind a barrack at the left. Hibi focuses
our attention on the figure by the use of bright red within an otherwise drab scene. The buildings are clustered together
but the viewer is allowed access to the pathways between them. The diagonal recession leads the viewer's eye back to the
mountain peak in the background. The large cloud formation overwhelms the hazy sky which partially obscures the yellow moon.
The usual signifiers of camp, the barbed-wire fence and guard towers, are absent from this work.
Subject:
Concentration Camps, Topaz | barracks | mountain | moon | person | door