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Japan – Edo period. Flatness (2-d); no shadowing; stylization, abstraction (color, form; patterns); contrast (patterns, curve/angular, land/water); precise and delicate drawing. Edo period UKIYO-E (The floating world), Kyoto. (1603-1868) (1853-opening to the west).
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Japan – Edo period Flatness (2-d); no shadowing; stylization, abstraction (color, form; patterns); contrast (patterns, curve/angular, land/water); precise and delicate drawing
Edo period UKIYO-E (The floating world), Kyoto (1603-1868) (1853-opening to the west) Harunobu, Saying Goodbye, color woodblock, 18th century (Edo Period)
Ukiyo-E Harunobu, Geisha as Daruma Crossing the Sea, color woodblock, Mid-18th century (Edo Period)
Impressionist Mary Cassatt’s work after going to the 1891 Japan art exhibition in Paris
Mary Cassat, Maternal Caress, 1891Drypoint and soft-ground etching, printed in color, 14 x 10” Utamaro, Midnight: The Hours of the Rat; Mother and Sleepy Child, (Edo period), ca. 1790Polychrome woodblock print, 14 x 9”