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Kitagawa Utamaro was praised for his 'tender' paintings of Japanese women. But did they show more scorn than love?
; ...pictures of beautiful women. But with Kitagawa Utamaro (c1756-1806) it was something else...tea-house, one of the scenes from Utamaro's Utamakura (Poem of the Pillow...intimacy is not rare in the work of Utamaro. With unprecedented candour, he...
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The Imprint of Japan; `Utamaro': An Energetic Musical Portrait at the Terrace
; ...Sondheim: His engaging 2 1/2-hour "Utamaro: The Musical," which opened a two-night...the celebrated woodblock printmaker Utamaro Kitagawa. While America and France are roiling...by following the fortunes of young Utamaro, who begins to make a name for himself...pretty waitresses. The play follows ...
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`Utamaro':East Meets West On Stage;The Japanese Musical That Borrows From Broadway
; ...the 18th-century master woodblock printer Kitagawa Utamaro, the resplendently costumed "Utamaro" is intriguingly hybrid in presentation, but...sensibility. Originally created in 1972, "Utamaro" was the first full-scale Japanese theater...
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Mirror mirror, paint a picture of beauty; Japanese artist Utamaro adored pretty women long before Richard Gere says Richard Edmonds.(News)
; ...pretty women (or anxious men!). But Kitagawa Utamaro, the Japanese printmaker of genius...was chasing them in the movies. Utamaro's women, in his wonderful prints...right effect created a subject for Utamaro which still fascinates collectors...
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ARTS: EXHIBITIONS: In the realm of the senses
; ...exhibition is called "The Passionate Art of Utamaro", but I'm not so sure that this exceptional...violent emotions of modern Western art. Utamaro is cool, meticulous. Both his social...grotesquerie. We do not know the date of Kitagawa Utamaro's birth, but it is certain that his...to a series of ...
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A moment of exquisite subtlety
; The art of love Kitagawa Utamaro 'Lovers'(from Uta makura / The Poem...a Japanese erotic print, such as Kitagawa Utamaro's Lovers. Social ceremony with its...genitals, visibly penetrating. Not so Utamaro's. The coming together of these...
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Iain Gale on exhibitions
; ...19th-century Japansese painter Kitagawa Utamaro, purports to celebrate the artist...behind the undeniable beauty of Utamaro's "pillow books" lies an obsession...guaranteed to enchant and entice. Utamaro would have loved them, but give...
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ART INSTITUTE EXHIBIT SAYS TO 'KIMONO' TO THEIR HOUSE
; PHOTO ''Brushing Silkworm Eggs into Hatching Boxes" by Kitagawa Utamaro is part of exhibit. THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. BEST BETS The Art Institute of Chicago...
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Anniversaries
; ...author and playwright, 1886; Kenneth More, actor, 1914. Deaths: Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed 1803; Utamaro Kitagawa, painter, 1806; Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy Bt, flag- captain to Horatio, Viscount Nelson, at the Battle of...
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OUT OF JAPAN, A DELICATE UNION; At the Sackler, Hashiguchi Goyo's Wood-Block Prints Provide Images of a Cultural Exchange
; ...veneration to Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) and to Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), the ukiyo- e printmakers...one compares his figures with those of Utamaro. Goyo's "Woman Combing Her Hair" (1920) and Utamaro's "Hanaogi of the Ogiya" (1794) have a...
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