Hiroshige. Famous Landscapes of the Sixty Provinces of Japan.
Hazan| N° d'inventaire | 22213 |
| Format | 17 x 24.5 |
| Détails | 184 p., leporello and booklet in slipcase. |
| Publication | Paris, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754111102 |
Born in Edo, formerly Tokyo, Hiroshige (1798-1858) entered at the age of fourteen the studio of a renowned artist, Utagawa Toyohiro, who played a decisive role in the development of landscape painting in Japan. A brilliant disciple, Hiroshige revealed a gift for expressing the beauty of nature, and it was with the series of prints Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road that he suddenly rose to fame in 1833-1834. From then on, he established himself, along with his elder Hokusai (1760-1849), as one of the two great figures of ukiyo-e, this artistic movement of the Edo period (1603-1868) which would focus on the new interests of a burgeoning urban and merchant bourgeoisie. Hiroshige's first major success prompted him to multiply his collections of famous sites, especially as demand grew. From the 1830s onwards, the new bourgeoisie was passionate about leisure travel, and prints allowed people to capture memories of places they had visited, or simply to dream. Hiroshige's style immediately stood out due to the poetic emotion emanating from his works, his skillful gradations of color, and the presence of the Japanese people in his engravings. In the second part of his career, Hiroshige innovated masterfully by abandoning the horizontal format in favor of the vertical, a choice that allowed him surprising framing and daring bird's-eye views. Famous Landscapes of the Sixty Provinces of Japan, published between 1853 and 1856, at the end of the artist's life, offer magnificent examples. Water, omnipresent in this series, stands out with its blues in a thousand shades, justifying once again the master's nickname, "Hiroshige the Blue."
Born in Edo, formerly Tokyo, Hiroshige (1798-1858) entered at the age of fourteen the studio of a renowned artist, Utagawa Toyohiro, who played a decisive role in the development of landscape painting in Japan. A brilliant disciple, Hiroshige revealed a gift for expressing the beauty of nature, and it was with the series of prints Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road that he suddenly rose to fame in 1833-1834. From then on, he established himself, along with his elder Hokusai (1760-1849), as one of the two great figures of ukiyo-e, this artistic movement of the Edo period (1603-1868) which would focus on the new interests of a burgeoning urban and merchant bourgeoisie. Hiroshige's first major success prompted him to multiply his collections of famous sites, especially as demand grew. From the 1830s onwards, the new bourgeoisie was passionate about leisure travel, and prints allowed people to capture memories of places they had visited, or simply to dream. Hiroshige's style immediately stood out due to the poetic emotion emanating from his works, his skillful gradations of color, and the presence of the Japanese people in his engravings. In the second part of his career, Hiroshige innovated masterfully by abandoning the horizontal format in favor of the vertical, a choice that allowed him surprising framing and daring bird's-eye views. Famous Landscapes of the Sixty Provinces of Japan, published between 1853 and 1856, at the end of the artist's life, offer magnificent examples. Water, omnipresent in this series, stands out with its blues in a thousand shades, justifying once again the master's nickname, "Hiroshige the Blue."