Jewelry dazzles in MFA exhibit Jul 25, 2008
(To illustrate the point, Markowitz has included examples of ukiyo-e prints, as well as various carved ornaments from Japan; there are also some contemporary posters, a pattern book, a Pre-Raphaelite painting and a sculpture by Auguste Rodin. The Japanese influence went far beyond formal concerns into a philosophy that cherished plant life, animals, and the constant flux of the natural world. (Boston Globe)
the journey: seven artists from the Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome Jul 14, 2008
Graeme Todd will display new oil landscapes inspired by Japanese woodblock print traditions such as ukiyo-e - translated as "pictures of the floating world" mixed with lesser-known techniques from the s saku hanga movement that blurs the definition between the creativity of the artist over artisanship. Related Links. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Japanese Artist Hashiguchi Goyo Jun 25, 2008
By 1915, there had been a revival of the traditional ukiyo-e woodblock style, as mastered earlier by such artists as Kitagawa Utamaro. By the time that Goyo began making woodblock prints, this revered form had taken on a new Taisho Era name of shin hanga. (Suite101.com)
Japanese art and its enigmas in the Edo period Apr 4, 2008
The architect dived into a shop and, as he examined a bunch of Ukiyo-e woodcuts, Price caught sight of a hanging scroll painted with grapevine branches done in gray ink. The young engineer who had had no previous exposure to art was riveted. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 17701900 Mar 27, 2008
The Utagawa School, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu, dominated the Japanese print market in the nineteenth century and is responsible for more than half of all surviving Ukiyo-e prints ... Ukiyo-e originated in Edo, present-day Tokyo, during the Shogunate era, when Japan was isolated from the rest of the world ... Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, the Ukiyo-e genre closely examines the pleasures of Kabuki theatres, teahouses, and the lives of geishas and courtesans. (AbsoluteArts.com)
* Fleeting pleasures of life in woodcut prints Mar 26, 2008
In 1842, fearing an erosion of national moral fiber, the government reacted to the mania for Kabuki and for ukiyo-e, the paintings and prints that depicted the fleeting pleasures of life in the entertainment sectors of major cities ... With 22 more prints from the Brooklyn Museum's collection, the exhibition tells the story of a group of artists that dominated the ukiyo-e print business for much of the 19th century ... There are many more compelling works in the show, including land- and... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Anchoring Edo Japan, a 'floating world' of pleasure Mar 15, 2008
Both groups acquired a taste for ukiyo-e, paintings and woodcuts that depicted ukiyo, the "floating world" of leisure and luxury. Ukiyo-e could be idealized images of courtesans, portraits of actors and celebrated beauties, or lavishly illustrated books of poetry ... Many of the artists who produced ukiyo-e, traditionally seen as a lower form of culture, also made paintings for elite patrons. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
NIU Art Museum hosts ‘Ayomi Yoshida Installation' Dec 28, 2007
Her temporary installation will both contrast and augment the concurrent Ukiyo-e Prints from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection and Revisiting Modern Japanese Prints: Selected Works from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection exhibitions at the NIU Art Museum. Her installations utilize the exact same tools and carving techniques of traditional wood block printmaking and carry the artistic evolution of Japanese printmaking to today. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
NIU museum celebrates donation with Asian art exhibition Dec 21, 2007
The museum will host three exhibitions: Ukiyo-e Prints from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection, Revisiting Modern Japanese Prints: Selected Works from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection and Japanese Pottery from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection from Jan. 15-March 7, 2008 ... The donation of Japanese modern prints and traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints to the NIU Art Museum from Richard F. Grott spawned the multifaceted National/International Consciousness in Japan: Self, Place... (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Japanese ukiyo-e exhibition opens in Beijing Nov 16, 2007
An exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e painting masterpieces opened at the Beijing World Art Museum on Thursday ... BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- An exhibition of Japanese ukiyo-e painting masterpieces opened at the Beijing World Art Museum on Thursday ... The month-long exhibition is hosted by the Chinese Association for International Understanding (CAFIU), showcasing a total of 100ukiyo-e paintings, more than 40 of which are first shown outside Japan. (Xinhuanet, China)
College night brings music, art Oct 1, 2007
"Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from the Floating World" featured ukiyo-e paintings, which are 17th century cloth panels painted in bright colors. The paintings depicted images of Japanese theaters and brothels. (Northeastern News, MA)
MFA's 'Arts of Japan' displays works from nine centuries Sep 30, 2007
The MFA has another show up, "Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings From the Floating World, 1690-1850," featuring ukiyo-e paintings of the worlds of theater and brothels, and this show selectively echoes that one. A gorgeous 17th-century screen by painting master Hishikawa Moronobu, "A Visit to the Yoshiwara," meanders in vivid colors through the red light district of Edo (now Tokyo). (Boston Globe)
Kohei Yoshiyuki captures Japanese voyeurism Sep 24, 2007
She cited the voyeurism depicted in Ukiyo-e woodblock erotic prints from 18th- and 19th-century Japan, in which a viewer watches a couple engage in sexual activity. Karen Irvine, curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, said Yoshiyuki's work was important because "it addresses photography's unique capacity for observation and implication." She locates his work in the tradition of artists who modified their cameras with decoy lenses and right-angle viewfinders to gain access... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
MFA's 'Drama and Desire' explores pleasure principle in Japan Sep 15, 2007
The show's 83 works were all drawn from the MFA's collection of some 700, said by scholars to be one of the world's largest and finest collections of ukiyo-e style paintings ... Ukiyo-e, which means "pictures of the floating world," is most commonly associated with popular, richly colored woodblock prints representing landscapes and town scenes by such masters as Hiroshige and Utamaro, works whose formal qualities famously influenced painters such as Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh ... What is... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Japanese tattoo art carves its mark in the mainstream Sep 8, 2007
When ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist Kuniyoshi popularized the Chinese epic "Suikoden" with illustrations of Robin Hood-esque bandits covered in tattoos, full-body irezumi became somewhat of a downtown rage ... "Say you study illustrations that have a sense of perspective, the impact of the tattoo is lessened. "It is incredibly difficult to convert someone like Hokusai's ukiyo-e illustrations into horimono (literally carving or engraving) though, because you really need to be able to... (News on Japan, Japan)
Boston to welcome cultural, contemporary art exhibitions Sep 7, 2007
The first, titled "Drama and Desire," is the MFA's own assembly of 83 ukiyo-e paintings from Japan. Ukiyo-e paintings, which translated means "floating world," depict scenes from the so-called Edo Period in Japan during which brothel and theatre entertainment became a staple of wealthy men's lives ... Most ukiyo-e artwork, created between 1690 and 1850, combines erotic images with detailed landscapes. (Northeastern News, MA)
Erotic Prints, Comely Courtesans Help Revival of Japan's Ancient Warhols Aug 27, 2007
While the 18th-century printmakers may be not be as cool as Warhol, their ukiyo-e woodblock works sell for a fraction of his prices -- prompting some collectors to look again at these ``pictures of the floating world ... You can get a great print by a great master for $5,000- $15,000,'' said Ken Caplan of Mita Arts, a ukiyo-e specialist in Tokyo's Kanda district ... Created for about 200-years from the mid-1600s, ukiyo-e celebrated the hedonistic delights of the brothel and theater district of... (Bloomberg -- Japan)
An artistic bridge across the Pacific Ocean May 20, 2007
The large works are mostly executed in watercolor on canvas, bearing a strong resemblance to Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the years circa 1750-1860. However, on closer examination you find included articles from modern culture, Nike joggers, swimming goggles, a McDonald's hamburger, condoms and a tiny automobile number plate necklace. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Triennale II seeks market for graphic art Mar 11, 2007
Using the Japanese woodcarving art of "ukiyo-e plus" for this piece, Agus is lashing out at the greediness of human beings. These three works won the first three places at the Indonesian Graphic Art Triennale II 2006 at Bentara Budaya in Jakarta. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Superheroes for a complex world Feb 9, 2007
These mass-produced ukiyo-e, or "floating world" pictures, depicted such urban pleasures as courtesans, actors, sumo wrestlers, teahouses and, at the more graphic end, stylised sex and violence ... "Manga is not considered art in the way that ukiyo-e was not considered as high art," Ajioka says ... "It was popular and commercial. With ukiyo-e and manga there is a communication of the art and commitment to entertain and get close to the viewer or reader.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Monet's Love Affair with Japanese Art Jan 9, 2007
His treasures, all hand-printed from wood blocks, encompass the best of ukiyo-e "images of the floating world" of geishas, Kabuki actors and pleasure houses that flourished in 18th and 19th century Edo, as Tokyo was known. These include works by such giants as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro. (Time.com)
Easy fame led to artist's sad decline Nov 27, 2006
Foujita responded to the French taste for japonisme (an aesthetic based on Western artists' love of ukiyo-e prints) by adapting the fine line and subtle palette of Japanese tradition to European subjects. At first, inspired by Henri Rousseau, he painted the freshly rendered landscapes that earned him the respect of the Paris art world. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Leslie Enders Lee's ''Madame Butterfly Unbound'' Exhibition Evokes Quiet Beauty of Puccini's Masterpiece: Opens to Praise from Opera Goers Oct 12, 2006
"Rather I have opted to stay faithful to the details of the period. To this end, I have employed my signature style of stenciled oil and stamped ink on paper, bringing to mind the Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the 18th Century, particularly those of Utamaro," the artist explains. Ms. Lee's work has consistently been praised for its intricate connection to the history of art, the nuance of language, the meaning of form and the lyric nature of abstraction. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Boy Kill Boy adds an accent to U.S. garage rock Aug 18, 2006
More than two centuries of calm and artistic growth in Japanese society is captured in the exhibit "The Art of Ukiyo-e: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Permanent Collection," on display at Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art ... "The Art of Ukiyo-e" was conceived by Patrick McGrady, the Charles V. Hallman curator ... "Ukiyo-e" is a creative process using the relief carvings from wood blocks. (State College Centre Daily, PA -- Entertainment)
'Impressionist Era' sheds new light on prints, drawings Jun 14, 2006
Several works by Cassatt, including three exceptional color prints from her notable series "The Ten," show the influence exhibitions of Japanese ukiyo-e prints were having on artists in the French capital. Here also are such notables as Degas, including an etching of Cassatt in the Louvre's Painting Gallery; Cezanne, including a lithograph based on his painting "Bathers at Rest"; Bonnard's splendid lithograph "The Little Laundress"; a handsome Gauguin woodcut, "Fresh Water Is Flowing," that... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Jacoulet: observing colors of Asia Apr 28, 2006
His woodblock prints are a mixture of Japanese traditional ukiyo-e printmaking of the highest standard and new lavish techniques invented by the artist himself. This included all the known deluxe features like embossing, lacquers, micas or metal pigments as well as his experiments with new techniques like powdered semi-precious stones. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Artful way to advertise Apr 21, 2006
Those posters, which advertise Sayuri as the lead performer in a Kabuki-style show, are a prime example of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") art that originated in the city of Edo (1616-1868, now Tokyo) that portrays idealized renditions of courtesans and geisha. And by no small coincidence, ukiyo-e is also the subject of the Pacific Asia Museum's current exhibition, "Reflections of Beauty: Women From Japan's Floating World." ... The ukiyo-e, which were either painted commissions or... (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Japanese printmakers emerge as an influential force, again Apr 19, 2006
By the end of the 19th century, the Western discovery of Ukiyo-e ("The Floating World") color prints, which began around the 1840s in Holland, led to the transfer to Europe of tens of thousands of these prints, which were still looked down upon in their homeland by traditional connoisseurs. They saw it as a form of art for the uneducated masses - meaning not cast in the mold of Chinese-based culture. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A man among giants (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Mar 18, 2006
Sickert also exploited Degas' asymmetrical diagonals and bird's-eye views, which the French artist, in turn, had appropriated from the 19th-century Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, as the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's retrospective across the Mall fortuitously proves. The Britisher went on to appropriate not only Degas' style, but also Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's flamboyant approach to Paris' dance halls. (Washington Times)
Edo peace crafts innovative work (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Jan 7, 2006
Hokusai specialized in "ukiyo-e" or "floating world" scenes -- "floating world" is translated as life's transient nature, especially in Edo's pleasure quarters -- with Toyoharu following closely. Sori, a Hokusai student also, varies styles and subjects as seen here with his "Six Immortal Poets," a classical upper-class Japanese story, that exhibit curator Miss Yonemura contrasts with the lower-class, freely brushed "Fisherman Hakuro and Mount Fuji.". (Washington Times)
