Hiroshige - Resources for Art Lovers
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Famous printmaker: Ando Hiroshige 1797-1858
The compendium site is about the famous Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige (1797-1858) who was most famous for his landscape prints. It provides links to information and images of his work and prints in museums and art galleries, in online galleries and in books and videos.
It was created as part of a project about Japanese Art in Making A Mark in 2008. This looked at the work of Hiroshige and his use of wood-block prints (ukiyo-e) and their influence on Impressionism. Links continue to be added on a regular basis.
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- Overview of The Life and Work of Hiroshige (1797-1858)
- BOOKS: About Ando Hiroshige and his views
- Online art galleries of Hiroshige's artwork
- Hiroshige in Art Galleries and Museums
- Exhibitions of Hiroshige's work
- Reviews of Hiroshige's work
- BOOKS: Hiroshige - prints, drawings and sketchbooks
- A YouTube video about Hiroshige
- Making A Mark - posts which reference Hiroshige
- Japanese Art and Artists - Resources for Art Lovers
- Making A Mark
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Overview of The Life and Work of Hiroshige (1797-1858)
Ando Hiroshige was born in Tokyo - which was then called Edo - in 1797. In 1809, when he was just 12 years old both his parents died. His father had been both a Samurai and a fireman.
In 1811, he joined the famous painting school and studio led by the ukiyo-e master Toyohiro Utagawa in 1811
His original name was Ando Tokutaro but in 1812 he was allowed to formally change his name to Utagawa and thereafter he called himself Utagawa Hiroshige. However in most ukiyo-e literature he is usually identified by the name Hiroshige Ando.
- Hiroshige - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Hiroshige From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Utagawa Hiroshige 1797 in Edo - October 12, 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition.
He was also referred to as Ando Hiroshige (although this combination of a family name with an art name is irregular)[1] and by the art name of Ichiy%u016Bsai Hiroshige . - Hiroshige - A Life by Prof. Yone Noguchi
- LIFE OF HIROSHIGE BY PROF. YONE NOGUCHI
This Life of Hiroshige by Professor Yone Noguchi is taken from the small booklet Hiroshige and Japanese Landscapes published
by Board of Tourist Industry Japanese Government Railways, 1936. - Hiroshige: An Appreciation by Charles Holmes
- HIROSHIGE: AN APPRECIATION - CHARLES HOLMES This is one of the earliest introductions to the work of Hiroshige. It was published in edition 3 of "The Dome - A Quarterly Containing Examples of All the Arts - Published at The Unicorn Press 26, Paternoster Square London
- Hiroshige (Japanese artist) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
- Hiroshige (Japanese artist), 1797 Edo [now Tokyo], Japan Oct. 12, 1858 Edo Japanese artist, one of the last great ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) masters of the colour woodblock print. His genius for landscape compositions was first recognized in the West by the Impressionis
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858, sometimes called Ando Hiroshige) was the second of the two great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print, after Hokusai.
He is particularly known for his scenes featuring snow and rain, which feauture in many of his best and most famous images, and which has led to his becoming know as "the artist of rain, snow and mist". - Hiroshige: Biography from Answers.com
- Ando Hiroshige ( b Edo [now Tokyo], 1797; d Edo, 1858). Japanese painter and printmaker.
The Japanese painter and printmaker Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) is considered one of the six great masters of the Ukiyo-e school. He is most famous for his landscape prints, which render typically Japanese landscapes in their different moods in a very poetic manner.
BOOKS: About Ando Hiroshige and his views
Online art galleries of Hiroshige's artwork
These are links to all the online websites which provide an insight into Hiroshige's work
- Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery - Hiroshige
- Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery - Hiroshige
Hiroshige's Tokaido Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) is one of the most famous Ukiyo-E artists. He specialized in landscapes, and in particular his sets of related scenes,
such as the "Hundred Famous Places of Edo" and "Famous Views of the
Eastern City". - Ando Hiroshige
- The Woodblock Prints of Ando Hiroshige
- WebMuseum: Hiroshige, Ando
- Japanese painter and printmaker Hiroshige was the last great figure of the Ukiyo-e, or popular, school of printmaking, and was known especially for his ...
- Ando Hiroshige Online
- Ando Hiroshige [Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1797-1858] Guide to pictures of works by Ando Hiroshige in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
- Ando Hiroshige
- The Woodblock Prints of Ando Hiroshige. ... THE WOODBLOCK PRINTS OF ANDO HIROSHIGE. Seba - No32 Kisokaido Road Series · ENTER. Last Updated 29 October 2006 ...
- Connecticut College Print Collection--Hiroshige, A Shoal of Fish
- Ando Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). A Shoal of Fishes. woodcuts. 26 X 36 cm. 15 of 20 total woodcuts. published 1832. DURER index. REMBRANDT index ...
- Japanese Woodblock Prints Online Gallery - Japanese Woodblock ...
- 1819 - 1865), Hiroshige - (1797 - 1858), Hiroshige - Reproduction Prints, Hiroshige II - (1826 - 1869), Hokkei, Hokusai - (1760 - 1849), Kakemono-e ...
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
- Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858, sometimes called Ando Hiroshige) was the second of the two great masters of the Japanese landscape woodblock print, ...
- Hiroshige
- The 53 Stations of the Tokaido is Hiroshige's trademark series. The original Tokaido prints were completed in 1834, but Hiroshige returned to the subject ...
- Hiroshige II Online
- Hiroshige II [Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1826-1869] Guide to pictures of works by Hiroshige II in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Hiroshige in Art Galleries and Museums
These links are to works by Hiroshige in the permanent collections of art galleries and museums
- Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions: Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views ...
- Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, ...
This is an excellent website for viewing Hiroshige's woodblock designs. - Hiroshige at the Fine Arts Museums of san Francisco
- Another very fine collection of woodblock prints by Hiroshige
- Hiroshige at MFA Boston
- Results of a search - Hiroshige at Museum of Fine arts on Boston
- Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum
- Bato-machi Hiroshige Museum
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reorder(most of the site is in Japanese) - Ando Hiroshige Museum
- Intended to hold a collection of Edo-era artist Ando Hiroshige, this museum in Batoh, Japan was inspired by one of the artist's ink drawings, ...
- British Museum - Utagawa Hiroshige
- Works by Utagawa Hiroshige
- HIROSHIGE MUSEUM OF ART
- These events led to the establishment of a Hiroshige Museum of Art in Tendo on April 18 th 1997, to coincide with the 200 th anniversary of Hiroshige's ...
- Ando Hiroshige (1797 - 1858) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
- Artworks in Museum Collections: (40) Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Ando Hiroshige. ...
- Ando Hiroshige Online
- Ando Hiroshige [Japanese Ukiyo-e Printmaker, 1797-1858] Guide to pictures of works by Ando Hiroshige in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
Exhibitions of Hiroshige's work
Periodically, there are exhibitions of Hiroshige's work although more commonly his work is included in exhibitions about Japanese art and ukiyo-e. Below are links to significant recent exhibitions of his work
- Brooklyn Museum: Exhibitions: Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
- Exhibitions: Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo Current
- British Museum - Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected
- Utagawa Hiroshige: The Moon Reflected, a touring exhibition
Curated by British artist Julian Opie with the assistance of Timothy Clark, this exhibition features a large selection of Utagawa Hiroshige's later woodblock prints from the British Museum's collection. An intervention in Ikon's normal sequence of contemporary exhibitions, it demonstrates the relevance of historical work to current artistic practice. - East Meets West: Hiroshige at The Phillips Collection | Art Knowledge News
- WASHINGTON, DC.- East Meets West: Hiroshige at The Phillips Collection will present the exquisite Tokaido Road landscape series by Japanese master printmaker Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), who dominated popular art in Japan for decades and inspired many 19th- and early 20th-century Western artists
- Hokusai and Hiroshige Woodcuts at The Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki | Art Knowledge News
- The Ateneum Art Museum presents Hokusai and Hiroshige, on view through December 7, 2008. This exhibition comes from Japan. It presents coloured woodcuts by Hokusai (1760-1849) and Hiroshige (1797-1858).
- Utagawa Hiroshige ~ Curated by Julian Opie ~ at Ikon | Art Knowledge News
- Ikon Gallery presents a major exhibition of the later colour woodblock prints of 19th century Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), curated by British artist Julian Opie.
Reviews of Hiroshige's work
- Chronicler of a floating world | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts
- Hiroshige's prints of 19th-century Japan conjure up an unchanging, impossibly tranquil world. They are masterful, writes Adrian Searle - but don't be fooled
Wednesday December 19, 2007 - Hiroshige - Stewart Guide to Japanese Prints
- Basil Stewart's book, 'A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter', was first published by E. P. Dutton and Company, New York in 1922 with the title 'Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour Prints'. It was reprinted as an unabridged edition by Dover Publications of New York in 1979.
A large proportion of the book deals with Hiroshige - Strange - The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige
- ANDO HIROSHIGE
THE COLOUR-PRINTS OF HIROSHIGE - EDWARD
F. STRANGE Edward F. Strange's book, 'The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige', was first
published in 1925 by Cassell & Company, London in an Edition de Luxe
of 250 numbered copies and as a standard trade edition. It was reprinted
in an - Strange - The Colour-Prints of Hiroshige
- ANDO HIROSHIGE
THE COLOUR-PRINTS OF HIROSHIGE - EDWARD F. STRANGE CHAPTER XII SKETCH-BOOKS AND DRAWINGS
The sketches and notes and studies - the memoria technica - of any considerable artist have a charm which often surpasses that of the finished work.
BOOKS: Hiroshige - prints, drawings and sketchbooks
Making A Mark - posts which reference Hiroshige
In 2008 I developed a project about Japanese art on my blog 'Making A Mark' and these are the blog posts which are relevant to Hiroshige
- Making a Mark: The influence of Japanese Art
- There's something about Japanese Art which draws me in. I'm not sure quite what it is however I'm very sure that learning more about it will help me with the development of my own drawings and artwork. It had a significant impact on the artists who I studied last year so I feel that being open to its influence can only be beneficial.
- Making a Mark: The concepts and characteristics of ukiyo-e
- This week, I'm going to try and summarise what seem to be the subjects and characteristics of the Japanese wood block print - ukiyo-e.
- Making a Mark: The elements of ukiyo-e
- This post aims to provide an overview of the different elements of design used in a Japanese wood block print - ukiyo-e. For an explanation of the elements of design see this post - Composition - The Elements of Design
- Making a Mark: Principles of design and composition and ukiyo-e
- In my reading, I'm finding a lot of space devoted to narrating biography and history and describing images but very little which actually discusses images in terms of pictorial form and construction. the only book which has a detailed discussion is the Japonisme book which has a hefty section. However skim reading convinced me that the various devices highlighted and discussed almost need a post each.
I'm also trying to relate a Japanese way of making pictures to western concepts of what's important in terms of Principles of Design (as discussed in the last project) Again this is more about me finding a way to understand what's going on initially rather than saying the western way of looking at things is best. As we'll see as this project progresses, there's an awful lot of western art which adopted conventions which originated in the East.
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- wow. do you have any info on him in his early life...like when he was younger???
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Hiroshige: Prints and Drawings (Asian Art)
Amazon Price: $47.94 (as of 02/17/2012)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) holds an assured place in the history of art as one of the greatest masters of the wood-block print. This volume offers an excellent overview of the accomplished artist who, together with Hokusai, was the leading creator of landscape imagery in Japanese printmaking.
If Hokusai is recognized for his bold compositions and clearly defined forms, Hiroshige is the master of the passing moment - the artist of mist, snow, and rain. The immense popularity of Hiroshige's prints meant that they were continually reprinted, wearing down the woodblocks. For this book, every effort has been made to reproduce only the finest early impressions.
Each plate is provided with a commentary by Matthi Forrer who, in an introductory essay, examines Hiroshige's life and work, assessing his place in Japanese art and making important revisions to the generally accepted chronology of his oeuvre. Other essays draw attention to aspects of Hiroshige's life and work which have often been overlooked and place Hiroshige and his art in their social and political context. This volume also includes maps, a chronology, a glossary and a bibliography.
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