Hiroshige
The Nawate Road near Hiratsuke (Hiratsuka nawatemichi), no. 8 from the series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusantsugi no uchi)
color woodcut
circa 1832 - 1833
Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (5)
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Smithsonian, National Museum of American Art and its Renwick Gallery: Woodcuts by Hiratsuka
Unichi Hiratsukas subject matter included Japanese and
American nature scenes, architecture, and landmarks;
portraits; and nudes from a little-known series. Named
to the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese emperor,
Hiratsuka was celeb...
Art Institute of Chicago: Hiratsuka: Modern Master
Hiratsuka was part of a printmaking revival in Japan known as the Creative Print
Movement. Under the slogan “self-designed, self-printed,” these artists sought to
reclaim control from p...
97-99 Gallery: Keiko Miyata || Silent Pop Violence
Miyatas hybrid creatures vary in size and personality, from the saccharine, such as ‘super lucky’ & ‘super happy’, to her more menacing pokemon-esque series ‘age 3’. With Age 3 the Tamagotchi cyber-pet becomes no longer hyper-real and pocket-siz...
De Appel: Dark Mirrors from Japan
The impetus for the exhibition was the
celebration of 400 years of relations between the Netherlands and
Japan.
Yukinori Yanagi and Yoshiko Shimada, both born in 1959, are quite
different from the artists of the younger generation. ...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Urban Metamorphosis: One Hundred Views of New Tokyo
In 1923, Tokyo was devastated by an earthquake that destroyed half of its
buildings, including virtually all of Shitamachi - the oldest district, and
town center. In the rebuilding process, the one- and two-storied wood and
brick structures of ...
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