{"id":2261,"date":"2017-10-16T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2017-10-16T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:45:28","slug":"woodblockprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/woodblockprints\/","title":{"rendered":"223k Japanese woodblock images on Ukiyo-e.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ames Library readers may be interested to learn about Ukiyo-e.org<\/a>, a digital collection of over 223,000 (and counting) Japanese ukiyo-e<\/em> woodblock prints. Ukiyo-e<\/em> is defined in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms<\/em> as<\/p>\n

\u2018pictures of the floating world\u2019 … referring to transient everyday life, [which provide] a major source of imagery in Japanese art from the 17th to the 19th centuries, particularly in the work of printmakers such as Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Utamaro. Typical subjects included theatre scenes, with actors in well-known roles, and views of the night-life of Edo (as Tokyo was then called). The resulting brightly coloured woodcut prints were imported into Europe from the middle of the 19th century and had a great influence on many avant-garde artists, including the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, who were particularly attracted by the bold compositions and striking colours of Ukiyo-e prints (M. Clarke and D. Clarke, “Ukiyo-e”).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to Ukiyo-e.org’s About page<\/a>, the website includes hundreds of thousands of images from 24 museum and art collections as well as the following features:<\/p>\n

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