Japanese Prints
Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper,
and a myriad of other types of works of art. It began sometime in the 10th millennium BCE. Japanese prints reveal a profound history, and is the creation of innovative artists and the result of contemporary ideas.
Ukiyo-e
is a genre of Japanese prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries. They feature motifs of landscapes, the theatre and pleasure quarters. Ukiyo-e is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan. The art form became popular during the second half of the 17th century since it was affordable because it could be mass-produced.
Ukiyo-e is still created today. Some of the most famous Ukiyo-e artists include Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Kunisada, and Hokusai.
Ando Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)
Ando Hiroshige dominated the field of landscape prints with his unique brand of intimate, rather small-scale works. His travel prints generally depicted travelers along famous routes, experiencing the special attractions of various sites along the way. Hiroshige is especially noted for using unusual vantage points, seasonal allusions, and striking colors. He adapted Western principles of perspective and receding space to his own works in order to achieve a sense of realistic depth.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi produced warrior prints, drawing much of his subjects from war tales. His prints were unique in that they depicted legendary popular figures with an added stress on dreams, ghostly apparitions, omens, and superhuman feats. Kuniyoshi illustrated prints of popular actors, more specifically portraits of famous kabuki actors. Wanting to express his love for felines, he also began to use cats as subjects in his prints.
Utagawa Kunisada (1756 - 1865)
Utagawa Kunisada's paintings were privately commissioned and remain little known. Landscape prints and samurai warrior prints by Kunisada are rare, and only about 100 designs in each of
these genres are known in the art world.
Katsushika Hokusai (1760 - 1849)
Katsushika Hokusai is best known as the author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic and internationally-recognized print Beneath the Great Wave off Kanagawa. One of his series included The Great Wave and Fuji in Clear Weather, which secured Hokusai's fame, both within Japan and overseas.
Japan's unique art is recognized around the world. Japanese prints have been exported internationally, and are admired for their distinctive features. Although art from the Edo period is simplistic in design, it can prominently stand beside the modern Japanese prints of today.
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