Warbler on a Plum Branch

【Utagawa Hiroshige】 ... more

by Utagawa Hiroshige

Title

Warbler on a Plum Branch

Artist

Utagawa Hiroshige

Medium

Painting - Woodprint

Description

【Utagawa Hiroshige】
『Warbler on a Plum Branch』
（Digital Remastered Edition）

『梅に鶯』（1835年）【デジタルリマスター版】


【Utagawa Hiroshige】
(Japanese: 歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868). The popular series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige's choice of subject, though Hiroshige's approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai's bolder, more formal prints. Subtle use of color was essential in Hiroshige's prints, often printed with multiple impressions in the same area and with extensive use of bokashi (color gradation), both of which were rather labor-intensive techniques.

For scholars and collectors, Hiroshige's death marked the beginning of a rapid decline in the ukiyo-e genre, especially in the face of the westernization that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Hiroshige's work came to have a marked influence on Western painting towards the close of the 19th century as a part of the trend in Japonism. Western artists, such as Manet and Monet, collected and closely studied Hiroshige's compositions. Vincent van Gogh even went so far as to paint copies of two of Hiroshige's prints from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.


【歌川 広重】（うたがわ ひろしげ）
寛政9年（1797年） - 安政5年9月6日（1858年10月12日）は、江戸時代の浮世絵師。本名は安藤重右衛門。江戸の定火消しの安藤家に生まれ家督を継ぎ、その後に浮世絵師となった。かつては安藤広重（あんどう ひろしげ）とも呼ばれたが、安藤は本姓、広重は号であり、両者を組み合わせて呼ぶのは不適切で、広重自身もそう名乗ったことはない。ゴッホやモネなどの画家に影響を与え、世界的に著名な画家である。
歌川広重の作品は、ヨーロッパやアメリカでは、大胆な構図などとともに、青色、特に藍色の美しさで評価が高い。
この鮮やかな青は欧米では「ジャパンブルー」、あるいはフェルメール・ブルー（ラピスラズリ）になぞらえて「ヒロシゲブルー」とも呼ばれる。
ヒロシゲブルーは、19世紀後半のフランスに発した印象派の画家たちや、アール・ヌーヴォーの芸術家たちに大きな影響をあたえたとされ、当時ジャポニスムの流行を生んだ要因のひとつともされている。

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June 16th, 2018