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South and Southeast Asia. Japanese Art. Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo –e Style. Woodblock prints were initially used as early as the eighth century in Japan to disseminate texts, especially Buddhist scriptures .
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South and Southeast Asia Japanese Art
Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo–e Style • Woodblock prints were initially used as early as the eighth century in Japan to disseminate texts, especially Buddhist scriptures. • he designer and painter TawarayaSotatsu (died ca. 1640) used wood stamps in the early seventeenth century to print designs on paper and silk. • Until the eighteenth century, however, woodblock printing remained primarily a convenient method of reproducing written texts.
Golden Age of Ukiyo-e (1780 to 1804) • The ukiyo-e, "the pictures of the floating world", is a Japanese woodblock print and started printing in the 17th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, various pleasures in daily life. • Ukiyo-e was central to forming the West's perception of Japanese art in the late 19th century–especially the landscapes of Hokusai and Hiroshige. http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/explore/explore-collection-ukiyo-e-video.cfm
Ukiyo-e style • From the 1870s Japonism became a prominent trend and had a strong influence on the early Impressionists such as Degas, Manet, and Monet; Post-Impressionists such as van Gogh; and Toulouse-Lautrec and other Art Nouveau artists.
Great Artists Hokusai and Hiroshige (11:41 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaP4wt1n3w0
Printing Process • Prints since the late 20th century have continued in an individualist vein and have been made with techniques imported from the West as well, such as screen printing, etching, mezzotint, and mixed media. (8:47 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8uF3PZ3KGQ
Ukiyo–e Style Hokusai (5:13 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFGtsG_EgA#t=23
The Great Wave at Kanagawa, Hokusai (44:46 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBh0m_ulLxo
Views of Celebrated Bridges in the Provinces-SesshuuTenmabashi
Ukiyo–e Style Hiroshige (3:14 mins) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxT5Pldsyqk
Shōno-juku, from Fifty-three Stations of the TōkaidōHiroshige
Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake, Hiroshige, 1857