🍰 — Asian Influence Flashcards
What are the characteristics of this period?
- Approaches to space
- Approaches to color
- Drawing conventions
- Subject matter
“Pictures of the floating world”
It were so named because their subjects were associated with impermanence and detachment from ordinary life.
Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e defines an art movement of Japan in what period?
Tokugawa period
This epoch was the final phase of traditional Japanese history. It was a time of?
Economic expansion, internal stability, and flourishing cultural arts
Three decrees were issued by the Shogun for _______
This allowed Japanese arts to thrive independently without other influences from foreigners.
National Seclusion
The beginning of the 19th century saw the emergence of several outstanding ukiyo-e artists like?
- Katsushika Hokusai
- Utagawa Hiroshige
- Utamaro
He is widely respected as the first master of the ukiyo-e print.
Hishikawa Moronobu
The most renowned and prolific ukiyo-e artist who produced an estimated 35,000 works during seven decades of ceaseless artistic creation.
Katsushika Hokusai
From age 20 until the year of his death he illustrated over 270 titles including several books of his art.
- The Great Wave of Kanagawa
Katsushika Hokusai
The last great master of the Japanese woodcut.
A famous rival of Hokusai he inspired the European impressionists with his brilliant spatial composition and ability to capture the transient moments of the landscape.
Utagawa Hiroshige
This period saw an influx of Western technology into Japan such as photography, leading to diminished interest in ukiyo-e within Japan.
Meiji Period
The late nineteenth-century Western mania for all things Japanese is called?
Japonisme
Subjects often became what?
Emblematic symbols
