UTAGAWA HIROSHIGUE

Juan José Chavarro Naranjo

May 2013

INDEX

Biography

Style

Main works

Influence

Visual language elements

Technique

Concept

Connections

Images of his work

References

BIOGRAPHY

Born in Tokyo Japan, probably 1767 and died at the age of 62 in 1858 of cholera

His father was inspector of fire, died in 1809, like her mother.

He was also called Tokubei y Jūemon.

He married twice in 1821 and 1837 had two children a boy in the first marriage and

the second a girl.

In 1811 came into the Studio of Utagawa Toyohiro where he did a good job.

In 1812 was the artistic name of Hiroshige.

Career began formally in 1832.

In 1856 became a Buddhist monk.

STYLE

STYLE

Held within the style ukiyo - "pictures of the floating world" representation of

types and popular scenes.

Hiroshige was formed in the characteristic style of the Utagawa school,

focusing on the representation of beautiful women (bijin-ga) and Japanese

popular theatre kabuki actors .

In 1832-1834 he went to landscaping.

MAIN WORKS

Its first series was: fifty-three stages of the Tōkaidō route (Tōkaidō

Gojūsantsugi, in 1832-1834 in these works he began his characteristic style,

marked by the composition of planes and the inclusion of objects or anecdotal

character, often with one certain humorous.

Another series of great relevance was one hundred famous views of Edo

(Meisho Edo hyakkei))(, 1856-1858) It has a total of 119 prints of landscapes

and landmarks of Edo

OTHER WORKS

“Famous views of the Eastern capital works (Tōto Meisho jukkei, 1831)..

Fifty-three stages of the route of Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi, 1832-1834).

Famous views of our country (Honcho meisho, 1832-1837).

Famous views of Kyoto (Kyōto meisho, 1834-1835).

Famous views of Ōsaka (Ōsaka meisho, 1834-1835).

Eight views of the province of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei, 1834-1835).

Six rivers Tama in the different provinces (Shokoku mutamagawa, 1834-1835).

Sixty-nine stations of the Kisokaidō (Kisokaidō Rokujūkyūtsugi no uchi, 1835-1842), in cooperation with

Keisai Eisen.

Restaurants and teahouses of first in Edo (Edo kōmei kaitei zukushi, 1835-1842).

Fifty-three stages of the Tōkaidō route with poems midarezaki (Kyōka Tōkaidō, 1839-1840).

Improvised silhouettes (Sokkyō kageboshi zukushi, 1840)” wikipedia.org

OTHER WORKS

“Fifty-three stages of the Tōkaidō route with poems midarezaki (Kyōka Tōkaidō, 1839-1840).

Improvised silhouettes (Sokkyō kageboshi zukushi, 1840).

Fifty-three stages of the route of Tōkaidō edit Gyōsho (Gyōsho Tōkaidō, 1841-1842).

Fifty-three stages of the route of the Tōkaidō, Edition Reisho (Reisho Tōkaidō, 1848-1852).

Fifty-three stages of the Tōkaidō route with figures (Jinbutsu Tōkaidō, 1848-1852).

Famous views of Edo (Edo meisho, 1853).

Famous views of the more than 60 provinces (Rokujū yoshū meisho zue, 1853-1858).

Famous views of the 53 stations (Gojūsantsugi meisho zue, 1855).

One hundred famous views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei, 1856-1858). Snow, Moon and flowers (Yuki,

tsuki, hana, 1857).

Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji (Fuji Sanjū-Rokkei, 1858-1859), completed by Hiroshige II.”

INFLUENCE OF OTHER ARTISTS

Vincent van Gogh: was the most influenced by the Japanese painting European painter. Proof

of this are some portraits (Agostina Segatori in the Café de Tambourin or portraits of the Tanguy

father, Italian, although accommodated Western fashion), a fan of prints, collected hundreds of

which twelve were of Hiroshige.

Claude Monet reproduced prints of the courtesan and Plum Garden in Kameido bridge at Atake

Ōhashi in a sudden rain: one of the most obvious evidence is the portrait of his first wife, Camille

Doncieux dressed Japanese fashion, but in general took from Japanese artists certain games of

color, songs, movement.

T H E L A N G U A G E V I S U A L E L E M E N T S

The language visual elements: is the language we

developed in the brain related to the way how we interpret

what we perceive through the eyes.("visually") Is that used

images and signs graphics. • aims to transmit messages

through the image.

These are: shape, Color, texture, lighting

VISUAL LANGUAJE ELEMENTS Shape: Asymmetric provisions, not just completed the work,

portrait format

Color scene: Colors are flat and shiny, with the Green and blue

Texture domain: Engraving on wood engraving (xylography)

Lighting: present in all his works with bright colors and the

domain of colours

TECHNIC

Used the technique of engraving mainly WOODCUT (technique of printing with wooden

plank)-, it was a secular and plebeian, eminently urban hairstyle that inspired by

anecdotal themes and scenes of genere

Used the technical nishiki-e, a type of cromoxilografía introduced in the century XVIIII

towards 1765 allowing color engraving.

karazuri, technical printing on paper an iron without ink, to make the relief printed

atenashi-bokashi, technique that combines a liquid with the ink and spreads over the

entire surface, the kimekomi, technique by which pressing an iron on paperfor lines and

contours; and kirakake print brilliant, accomplished with two plates, one color and one of

tail bones, on which is placed the paper, which is then sprayed with mica powder

CONCEPT

Highlighted stations landscapes and moments of daily life,

where the human being is always present.

His landscapes present a colorful that reproduces the

atmosphere of nature at different times of the day and during

the seasons of the year, with rain, snow and wind, in the dark

of the night or in the evening twilight. It is also delicate sheets

of flowers and birds.

CONNECTIONS

This artist has really big connections with the work of my personal project the reasons are that his content area is also the far east. Also he uses the visual language elements such as the colors and line emphasis. In my project I am going to draw a landscape four times, as he used to draw landscapes.

IMAGES OF HIS WORK

REFERENCES

Dorling Kindersley (2008), Arte la guía Visual definitiva 1800-1900

Trede, Melanie; Bichler, Lorenz (2010). Cien famosas vistas de Edo. Taschen, Colonia. ISBN 978-3-8365-

2148-2

Fahr-Becker, Gabriele (2007). Grabados japoneses. Taschen, Colonia, ISBN 978-3-8228-3480-0

Honour, Hugh; Fleming, John (2002). Historia mundial del arte. ISBN 84-460-2092-0

Satō, Tomoko (2009). Arte japonés. Lisma, Madrid. ISBN 978-84-92447-25-1

Schlombs, Adele (2010). Hiroshige. Taschen, Colonia ISBN 978-3-8365-2357-8

Stanley-Baker, Joan (2000). Arte japonés. Destino, Madrid. ISBN 84-233-3239-X

van Gogh, Vincent (1992). Cartas a Théo. Barcelona: Labor. ISBN 84-335-3505-6