Hiroshige Artist
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 landscapes, such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō; and for his depictions of birds and flowers. 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 Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 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.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 closely studied Hiroshige's compositions, and some, such as van Gogh, painted copies of Hiroshige's prints.
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- http://books.google.com/books?id=1URfPgAACAAJ
- http://books.google.com/books?id=JDtJfhUAErQC
- http://books.google.com/books?id=j3rirorbbeEC
- http://digitalmuseum.rekibun.or.jp/app/selected/edo-tokyo?no=200704
- http://tokaido-hiroshige.jp
- http://ukiyo-e.org/artist/utagawa-hiroshige
- http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/edo
- http://www.hiroshige.org.uk