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Die Kurtisane Takigawa von Ogiya - Kitagawa Utamaro
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Ein raffiniertes Holzschnittporträt von Kitagawa Utamaro, das die Kurtisane Takigawa mit eleganter Linienführung und einer gedämpften, raffinierten Farbpalette einfängt.
Dieser Holzschnitt von Kitagawa Utamaro zeigt die Kurtisane Takigawa aus dem Hause Ogiya. Er gehört zur Serie „Sieben Aspekte der Komachi in den Grünen Häusern“, einem Projekt, das Parallelen zwischen der legendären Dichterin Ono no Komachi und den gefeierten Frauen des Vergnügungsviertels Yoshiwara zieht. Utamaro konzentriert sich auf den Oberkörper und den Kopf des Motivs, eine kompositorische Wahl, die eine genaue Betrachtung ihrer Züge und ihrer aufwendigen Frisur ermöglicht.
Der Druck zeigt die Meisterschaft des Künstlers im Okubi-e-Stil, dem Großkopfporträt. Die Linien, die Gesicht und Hals definieren, sind zart, während das Haar mit kräftigen, schwungvollen Strichen wiedergegeben wird, die Textur und Volumen andeuten. Die Kurtisane trägt eine Reihe von Haarnadeln, die ihren Status innerhalb der Hierarchie des Viertels anzeigen. Ihr Ausdruck ist gefasst und spiegelt die kontrollierte Ästhetik wider, die von Frauen in ihrer Position erwartet wurde. Das Gewand, das sie trägt, weist ein subtiles, fächerartiges Muster auf, das einen visuellen Kontrapunkt zur glatten, blassen Haut ihres Gesichts bildet.
Utamaro war eine zentrale Figur in der Entwicklung des Ukiyo-e-Genres im späten achtzehnten Jahrhundert. Seine Arbeit erforschte oft das Leben der Frauen in Edo, wobei er sich von den Ganzkörperfiguren früherer Drucke abwandte, um sich auf individuelle Charakter und psychologische Präsenz zu konzentrieren. Die gedämpfte Farbpalette, dominiert von sanften Grautönen, blassen Gelbtönen und subtilen Tuschtönen, ermöglicht es dem Betrachter, sich auf die Linienführung und die subtilen Variationen in der Körperhaltung des Motivs zu konzentrieren. Dieser Druck ist ein repräsentatives Beispiel für die Fähigkeit des Künstlers, die spezifische Identität seiner Motive einzufangen, während er sich an die stilistischen Konventionen der Epoche hielt.
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Die Kurtisane Takigawa von Ogiya - Kitagawa Utamaro
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Ab £28.00 GBP
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Ab £28.00 GBP
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Fine Art Poster / A4 (21x29.7 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Kitagawa Utamaro
Utamaro was arrested in 1804 for making prints depicting the sixteenth-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was manacled for fifty days. He died two years later, at roughly fifty-three. The connection between the punishment and the death is debated, but the timing suggests something broke.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
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Kitagawa Utamaro
Utamaro was arrested in 1804 for making prints depicting the sixteenth-century military ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He was manacled for fifty days. He died two years later, at roughly fifty-three. The connection between the punishment and the death is debated, but the timing suggests something broke.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
Almost nothing is certain about his early life. He was born around 1753, possibly in Edo, possibly in Kyoto, possibly in Kawagoe. He began publishing prints in the 1770s under the guidance of the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo, who recognised what Utamaro could do with a portrait of a woman.
What he could do was unprecedented. He invented the okubi-e format: large head-and-shoulders portraits of individual women, mostly from the Yoshiwara pleasure district, printed in close-up with minimal background. Before Utamaro, bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women) showed groups of figures in full length. He isolated the face, the tilt of the head, the expression. The prints are psychologically specific in a way that had not existed in Japanese printmaking.
He also published books of insect studies and volumes of shunga (erotica), and he made portraits of ordinary town women, not just courtesans. Ohisa and Okita, two shopgirls who appeared in his Three Beauties of the Present Day, became famous across Edo because of his prints. He turned real people into celebrities, which may be the first documented instance of an artist functioning as a kind of media platform.
Tsutaya Juzaburo died in 1797. Utamaro was reportedly devastated. Some critics feel his work never reached the same level afterward. He produced over two thousand prints in his career.
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