Utamaro Kitagawa - Shiohi no tsuto (shellfish gathering) - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Shiohi no tsuto
• Artist (if known): Utamaro Kitagawa
• Media or other details:  woodblock print
• Publisher / Gallery: National Diet Library, Tokyo
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): n/a
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A807

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese: ??? ??; c.?1753 – 31 October 1806) was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded practitioners of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock prints, especially for his portraits of beautiful women, or bijin-ga. He also produced nature studies, particularly illustrated books of insects.

Utamaro's work reached Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, where it was very popular, enjoying particular acclaim in France. He influenced the European Impressionists, particularly with his use of partial views and his emphasis on light and shade, which they imitated. The reference to the ""Japanese influence"" among these artists often refers to the work of Utamaro.

Ukiyo-e art flourished in Japan during the Edo period from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, and the art form took as its primary subjects courtesans, kabuki actors, and others associated with the ""floating world"" lifestyle of the pleasure districts. Alongside paintings, mass-produced woodblock prints were a major form of the genre.^[1] Ukiyo-e art was aimed at the common townspeople at the bottom of the social scale, especially of the administrative capital of Edo. Its audience, themes, aesthetics, and mass-produced nature kept it from consideration as serious art.^[2]

In the mid-eighteenth century, full-colour nishiki-e prints became common. They were printed by using a large number of woodblocks, one for each colour.^[3] Towards the close of the eighteenth century there was a peak in both quality and quantity of the work.^[4] Kiyonaga was the pre-eminent portraitist of beauties during the 1780s, and the tall, graceful beauties in his work had a great influence on Utamaro, who was to succeed him in fame.^[5] Shunsho of the Katuskawa school introduced the okubi-e ""large-headed picture"" in the 1760s.^[6] He and other members of the Katsukawa school, such as Shunko, popularized the form for yakusha-e actor prints, and popularized the dusting of mica in the backgrounds to produce a glittering effect.^[7]

type=printed postcards

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period=1945 - present

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