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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e. Japanese term, meaning ‘pictures of the floating world’, applied to the dominant movement in Japanese art of the 17th to the 19th century. It refers to the subjects from everyday life, with its ever-shifting fashions, favoured by printmakers in this period, including such celebrated artists as Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806). Favourite subjects were theatre scenes, actors in well-known roles, and prostitutes and bath-house girls. Japanese prints began arriving in European ports in the 1850s (
Monet bought one in Le Havre in 1856) and greatly influenced avant-garde French artists, to whom their flat decorative colour and expressive pattern came as a revelation.
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HIROSHIGE; Japan prints powerful in West.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...though uneven, "East Meets West: Hiroshige at the Phillips Collection." Modern...and exaggerated asymmetries of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), one of Japan's great...collection, the Phillips illustrates Hiroshige's cross-cultural impact. The "Tokaido...
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Hiroshige, Master Of His Domain
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/29/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...THREE rooms into "East Meets West: Hiroshige at the Phillips Collection" before it...compliment. For what Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was really, really good...depicting travelers, the 55 works in Hiroshige's series "The 53 Stations of the Tokaido...
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The darkest place is under the light house.(ABOUT THE COVER)(Hiroshige, Utagawa)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; --Japanese proverb "Hiroshige's death cannot be too much deplored...1858 cholera epidemic (1). Utagawa Hiroshige himself, before his death at age...production made woodblock prints, Hiroshige's main medium, widely accessible...
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POETIC VISION OF THE NATURAL WORLD UNITES HIROSHIGE'S MASTERLY LANDSCAPE PRINTS.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 12/26/1997; ; 700+ words
; Hiroshige's prints hang on the walls of a Pioneer Square gallery, but the...until the 19th century and its two masters of landscape, Hokusai and Hiroshige. Hiroshige's work ought to be a big hit in the Puget Sound area. Almost every...
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Road to Great Art: Japanese woodblock master Hiroshige drew
Newspaper article from: AsianWeek; 12/9/1998; 700+ words
; ...Great Art: Japanese woodblock master Hiroshige drew inspiration from common journeys...young aristocratic upstart, Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the subject of the...Gogh collected more than 200 prints by Hiroshige, and painted a copy of one work, The...
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Hiroshige, the Creator: Debunking a Myth
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...seeing the admirable retrospective of Hiroshige's work, on view at the Royal Academy...Tokyo was called, probably in 1797, Hiroshige lived at a time when Western influence...mentioned, woodblock designers such as Hiroshige appear to have been acutely aware of...
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Hiroshige; the Sixty-nine stations of the Kisokaido; illustrations by Utagawa Hiroshige & Keisai Eisen.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2008; 562 words
; 9780807615935 Hiroshige; the Sixty-nine stations of the Kisokaido; illustrations by Utagawa Hiroshige & Keisai Eisen. Ando, Hiroshige. George Braziller, Inc. 2008 159 pages $80.00 Hardcover NE1325 This text contains a full-color...
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 "Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)")
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Hiroshige takes modern viewers to ancient Japan.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); 8/12/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...phillipscollection.org.) The artist is Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), a profoundly prolific...his lifelong popularity and fame. "Hiroshige's work is considered to be among the...journey as seen by the ordinary traveler, Hiroshige took a very representational approach...
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OPTICAL ILLUSIONS.(Hiroshige Ando Museum)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...house a small collection of the work of Hiroshige Ando, one of Japan's greatest woodblock...the Miura Peninsula near Yokohama. The Hiroshige Ando Museum employs a similar strategy...right. It was endowed by a collector of Hiroshige woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) who left...
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Woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige come home after their debut showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 3/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; HOKUSAI and Hiroshige are coming home. Not the 18th-century...Museum in San Francisco. "Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James...prints in the world. The Hokusai and Hiroshige exhibition will be augmented with additional...
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Ando Hiroshige
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ando Hiroshige The Japanese painter and printmaker Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) is considered one of the six great masters...Working during the closing decades of the Edo period, Hiroshige represents the last flowering of the Ukiyo-e school...
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Hiroshige
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) , 1797-1858, Japanese painter and color-print artist of the...scenes. From him Whistler drew inspiration for his nocturnal scenes. Hiroshige is represented in the major museums of Tokyo, London, New York...
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Hiroshige, Ando
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Hiroshige, Ando (1797–1858) Japanese master of ukiyo-e (coloured woodcut ). With Hokusai and Utamaro , he was one of the leading Japanese printmakers of his day. He is best known for his landscapes, which influenced impressionism .
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ukiyo-e
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...generally considered the originator of the true ukiyo-e print; he gained renown for his woodcut illustrations for popular literature. Other famous ukiyo-e printmakers were Harunobu, Hiroshige , Hokusai , Kiyonaga, Sharaku, and Utamaro .
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Ukiyo-e
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...life, with its ever-shifting fashions, favoured by printmakers in this period, including such celebrated artists as Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), and Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806...
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