Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style | Essay | The Metropolitan …
网页Woodblock prints of the Edo period most frequently depicted the seductive courtesans and exciting Kabuki actors of the urban pleasure districts. With time, their subject matter expanded to include famous romantic vistas and eventually, in the final years of the nineteenth century, dramatic historical events.
The Ten Most Important Ukiyo-e Art Prints of All Time
网页2022年1月30日 · The most famous Ukiyo-e of all time falls into five main categories of woodblock art prints: beautiful women, landscapes, warriors/heroes, kabuki actors, and shunga (illegal, sexually explicit art). Spanning from the 17th to the 19th centuries, here are the ten most important Ukiyo-e prints of all time. 1.
Ukiyo-e Japanese Prints: The History of Japanese Woodblock Prints
网页2019年8月1日 · The Unique History and Exquisite Aesthetic of Japan’s Ethereal Woodblock Prints. By Kelly Richman-Abdou on August 1, 2019. Celebrated for their one-of-a-kind process and distinctive aesthetic, woodblock prints have become a widely recognized and iconic form of Japanese art.
Japanese Woodblock Print Search - Ukiyo-e Search
网页Ukiyo-e Search provides an incredible resource: The ability to both search for Japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print AND the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints. Below is …
Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) - V&A
网页Produced in their many thousands and hugely popular during the Edo period (1615 – 1868), these colourful woodblock prints, known as ukiyo-e, depicted scenes from everyday Japan. Ukiyo-e literally means 'pictures of the floating world'.
Ukiyo-e | Woodblock Printing, Edo Period & Japanese Prints
网页Ukiyo-e, one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki (“picture scrolls”) produced in the Kamakura period and the mature decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods.
Ukiyo-e: Masters of Woodblock Prints in Japanese Art
网页2020年11月25日 · Ukiyo-e is a famous Japanese woodblock print style that emerged in the 17th century. Throughout its evolution, it gave rise to some of the most well-known Japanese artists.
The Ukiyo-e Artists You Need To Know - Google Arts & Culture
网页The word roughly translates as “pictures of the floating world” and artists belonging to the movement produced woodblock prints and paintings of scenes from history and folktales, sumo...
Ukiyo-e - Wikipedia
网页Ukiyo-e[ a ] is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
The Floating World of Ukiyo-E - Library of Congress
网页The Library's collection numbering approximately 2000 woodblock prints and 400 block-printed ehon, attests to the unrivaled craftsmanship, technical excellence, and spectacular results that Ukiyo-e artists were able to achieve in woodblock printing.