- Title
- Cruel Heat, My Mind in a Whirl, I Listen to the Thunder Rumble
- Date Made
- 1966-1967
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 7/8 × 21 3/8 in. (45.4 × 54.29 cm)
Image: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.64 × 50.48 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.85.215.17
- Collecting Area
- Prints and Drawings
- Curatorial Notes
From the exhibition Stanton Macdonald-Wright and His Circle at LACMA
January 29-May 28, 2003
When Macdonald-Wright was seventy-five years old, he created twenty color woodblock prints of Haiga, an image illustrating a haiku (seventeen syllable, three-line poems that do not rhyme). The portfolio illustrates haiku by some of Japan's most revered poets: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Chiyoni, and Hokushi. Each Haiga's title is a translation of the haiku. The Haiga portfolio prints affirmed one of the fundamental precepts of Synchromism: art must draw inspiration from both past and present to be vital and enduring. The Haiga images also testify to Macdonald-Wright's unceasing commitment to bridging East and West.
- Selected Bibliography
- South, Will. Color, Myth, And Music: Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2001.
