Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi & Sotaro Yasui — Statement Wall | Vintage Japanese Art Prints

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Kuniyoshi, Yoshitoshi & Sotaro Yasui — Statement Wall | Vintage Japanese Art PrintsThe masters of the Japanese woodblock print tradition Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ohara Koson, Goyo Hashiguchi, Yoshitoshi Tsukioka, and Sotaro Yasui among them collectively represent the full sweep of Japanese printmaking from the dramatic warrior prints of the Edo period through the lyrical Shin Hanga revival of the early 20th century. This wall brings together the great names of that tradition: warriors and courtesans, birds and blossoms, actors and moonlit

and scraps were assembled into collages of surprising beauty

a vivid group portrait of eight celebrated drinkers

he developed a synthesis of classical Japanese and contemporary Western techniques that produced works of unusual power and drama

1677–1751) was a Japanese Confucian scholar

hovering rectangles of colour — were intended to produce in the viewer the same overwhelming emotional experience as religious art

and writer whose Grammar of Ornament (1856) compiled the decorative vocabularies of 37 civilisations into a single encyclopaedic survey that transformed how Victorian designers understood pattern

His monumental Gordale Scar (1812–1814) is one of the great achievements of British Romantic landscape painting

Torii Kiyomasu (active early 18th century) was one of the founding masters of the Torii school — the artists who defined the visual language of Edo kabuki theatre and produced some of the earliest and most dramatically powerful ukiyo-e prints

Collected today as both historical document and graphic art object

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saints that look defeated

His paintings of Algerian women

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