•How Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints Were Made Hodogaya: 4th Station of The 53 Stations of the Tokaido Series (1834) Tokyo National Museum. By Utagawa Hiroshige. ASIAN ART For information and facts about art from C
This influential ceramic development spread into Siberia - see the Amur River Basin pottery (14,300 BCE) - and Japan, in the form of Jomon Pottery (14,500 BCE). Strangely however, little evidence has so far emerged of any significant tradition of cave art on the Chinese mainland. The ...
Theukiyo-estyle used foreshortening (angling an object toward a viewer to change the allusion of three-dimensional perspective on a two-dimensional surface) asymmetry to invoke movement and action within a scene. For the Impressionist artists, this technique from the East was a crucial tool in th...
Art - or Art Nouveau. Hence also the fact that it was applied to a host of different forms including architecture,fine art,applied art, anddecorative art. Rooted partly in the Industrial Revolution, and the Arts andCraftsMovement, but also influenced byJaponism(especiallyUkiyo-e printsby ...
Art Nouveau, ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, interior desig
Art Deco, originated in the 1910s and 1920s in western Europe and developed into a major style in the United States during the 1930s. Its distinguishing features include simple, clean shapes, often with a streamlined look; ornament that is geometric or s
and thus effectively invented the lithographic poster. This type of poster art, influenced by JapaneseUkiyo-ewoodcut prints by artists likeHokusai(1760-1849) andHiroshige(1797-1858), began purely as a means to sell products and theatrical entertainment and then developed into a popular art form....