I love all the Mt Fuji images Hokusai made.

I saw a modern Woodblock Print showcase at my school in one of the galleries. It was pretty intense. I would love to try and do a multicolored woodblock print someday.

I have never heard of that type of art...do you have an example? I may know what it is and just not know the name of it. ^^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e

Several image examples within as well as what exactly it is :3

Ah yes, I do know what it is. ^^ Beautiful stuff...Thank you for showing me Bunnys. ^^

You're welcome :3

I remember one of Hiroshige's, I believe... I do not remember the name, but I do know it appeared in one of Van Gogh's works. It was very interesting, I liked it.

Was it the plum trees?

@ Vantid: Not that I know of, but then, I had no idea he actually replicated ukiyo-e. I'm not too art savvy, I just learned some interesting stuff this past semester in college.

Leighnx: Wow, I knew he was a fan, but I'd no idea he replicated it. Pretty interesting stuff, definitely not part of Van Gogh's reputation.


What I meant by appear in his work was Van Gogh had something of Hiroshige's on his wall, and it showed up in a self-portrait of his, Self Portrait With Bandaged Ear.

http://www.jdcasten.info/Philosophy.....andagedEar.jpg

Van Gogh was a big time fan of Hiroshige and he sometimes tried to replicate his work.
http://www.akimbo.ca/UserFiles/Imag....._Hiroshige.jpg
http://blog.wdka.nl/minorschilderen.....van_gogh_1.jpg

I'm sure there are more examples, but I can't find them :)

I'm sure Kit is a big fan of it :3

That's funny, I actually bought a tapestry earlier today of one of the most well known works, with the great wave on it :3 I love the style, and wish I knew the techniques used!

i cannot remember any one artist right now but i love it all. i have a huge folder of it. i love the temples and snow scenes most of the time best. i have in my folder some fine stuff that are like nature snippets of plants and bugs and fish and plants. amazing stuff. i try to emulate it but i am far from having that sort of control of my art yet.

It's not easy at all for sure. It's fun to emulate that style. I want to recreate some of Hiroshige's work of birds in my own style, just use the same composition. It seems like fun!

i love the feel of the brush strokes but i have not yet mastered such.

My favourites have to be Hokusai and Umegawa Kuniyoshi, right now I'm gathering information for a blog article on the latter and ukiyo-e animal drawing in general. Kuniyoshi's animals (especially cats) have something so special about them that often I can recognize them among other ukiyo-e drawings, in spite of all artists of the genre having fairly similar styles. He also loved mythological subjects and did very unique drawings of demons and monsters. Some examples of his work:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C.....gawa_Kuniyoshi
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F.....niyoshi_Taiba_(The_End).jpg

I've been spending time reading about the style and not enough time looking at the various artists. Kuniyosha's stuff is rad, thanks for that! He's good at creepy stuff. I remember copying the giant skeleton for a school project in 9th grade.

Oh man, [url=http://atky.cocolog-nifty.com/photo.....be.jpg]Yoshida Hiroshi[/i] (吉田博 might help turn up some other google image hits for you), for sure.

He's a part of the more modern shin-hanga school, influenced by the western Art Nouveau movement, so he's not technically an ukiyo-e artist, but still a direct descendant of that tradition, certainly. You look at his stuff and the detail and color and compositions are super striking, then you realize they're all wood block prints and it completely blows your mind <3

Hah! URL fail. Let's try that again...

Yoshida Hiroshi is a rad dude.

Oh fish that's lovely! It reminds me of an american woodblock print artist and dangit I can't think of his name right now. I feel ashamed.

Also, contemporary artist Yamaguchi Akira (山口晃) creates massive modern landscape and figurative paintings in the style of traditional picture-scroll illustrations. They're super charming and incredibly detail-heavy. You can totally get lost in them <3

Ooh! I love Hokusai's various pieces of waterfalls.
ie, http://www.japaneseprints-london.co.....s/HPIM0570.jpg
http://www.youthink.org/Dreamweaver....._waterfall.jpg

Oh, you know I love this shiiiit. I have a giant poster of Hiroshige's in my room right behind my computer

I love 浮世絵, have a few hanging up myself. I really love the sumo ones, being a huge sumo fan, but I've seen the popular ones about a billion times. Seriously, it's like...every time I see like a collection of them, it's just like looking at Ansel Adams calendars, or something (you know, "oh...that shot of Half Dome or El Capitan again").

I actually like things like gesaku (戯作) a little more, where they have stories written out in calligraphy around pictures. That and political pics. There's a really great one of a sumo throwing a Western soldier down while others stand and cower at his might. That's obviously the "Honor the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian" sentiment, and it's a little funny.

I actually really enjoy seeing modern reinterpretations of ukiyo-e. And of course, Mt. Fuji. :3

I do! I used to have a Ukiyo-e Tarot deck believe it or not. I had to leave it behind unfortunately.

It's one of my favorite kinds of art, actually! I have yet to do enough research, however, to have a favorite artist. Mostly I just love the clean aesthetic.

I regularly rip off compositions from Hiroshige. xD

Utagawa Kuniyoshi is a favorite of mine.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C.....gawa_Kuniyoshi

I love his art. If you want to find similar work by a living master, look for art by Miyata Masayuki. Here's an example:
http://www.miyatamasayuki-kiri-e.jp.....older/newsite/

His work for The Narrow Road to Oku (the Donald Kneene translation) is breathtaking :D

Whoof. Those are gorgeous. Thank you for the link!