Brand New!! Who Painted This? #20
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
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This calendar week it's non a painting. First yous need to function out what it is.
I bring a overnice laid upwardly of clues lined upwardly for yous all if there's no progress inwards identifying the scene together with the artist.
How to participate inwards "Who painted this? #20"
PLEASE brand certain yous read the rules earlier posting a comment - together with ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what yous intend is the answer.
Click this link to read THE RULES for participating inwards this challenge (this saves having to re-create them out for each post!).
In short:
Not such an slow i end calendar week - every bit a issue of people found out.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1862) was Japanese together with i of the corking primary painter printmakers producing woodblock prints inwards the ukiyo-e style during the Edo period.
I assemble cats are considered to move creatures of skillful fortune inwards Nippon - together with that the whole field is besotted alongside them. Roger Brown tells me that non exclusively was Kuniyoshi a truthful cat lover he likewise owned 10 cats. I'm guessing we're seeing some of them inwards this print!
The Tokaido Road is the route betwixt Edo (Tokyo) together with Kyoto. It was was i of Five Routes linking the historical capitol of Edo to the residuum of Japan.
Ando Hiroshige (see my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker), some other of the Masters of Ukiyo-e prints produced many unlike editions of a serial of prints titled 'The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road' - i for each of the stations on the Tokkaodo Road. This serial established him every bit the most successful printmaker of his time.
It seems every bit Kuniyoshi was having some fun alongside this exceptional print. That's because the function is a parody.
The seat of each truthful cat is a pun on the hollo of the stations on the Tokkaido Road. You tin notice to a greater extent than explanation inwards this. Plus a serial of 53 images are condensed into a triptych every bit opposed to 53 dissever images. This site provides a detailed explanation of how each truthful cat translates to a station together with how the pun works. I used the translator available inwards Google Chrome.
You tin see to a greater extent than of Kuniyoshi's artwork on Wikipaintings together with his Ukiyo-e Prints on Wikimedia Commons.
You tin likewise read to a greater extent than About Japanese Art together with Artists on my website of the same name.
The right answers
It's been hard to justice the kickoff soul to larn the correct answer this week. In the halt I've gone alongside the kickoff soul who got all the right answers - together with that's Sandra Robinson (The Colour of Ideas). Ruth Harris was a unopen second.
Others who got the respond right were every bit follows (in order):
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| Who painted this? #20 (except it's non a painting!) |
How to participate inwards "Who painted this? #20"
PLEASE brand certain yous read the rules earlier posting a comment - together with ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what yous intend is the answer.
Click this link to read THE RULES for participating inwards this challenge (this saves having to re-create them out for each post!).
In short:
- use your brains non software to notice the answer
- search using words exclusively on a database of images
- leave your respond every bit a comment on this blog
- if right it volition non move published until the side past times side post - which provides the answer
- if incorrect it volition move published
- do non exit the respond on Facebook!
- the winner - who gets a hollo together with a link on/from this spider web log - is the kickoff soul to rank me a completely right respond for ALL the things I desire to know
Not such an slow i end calendar week - every bit a issue of people found out.
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| Cats suggested every bit the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido |
- Title of the artwork Cats suggested every bit the l iii stations of the Tokaido
- Name of the creative soul who created this artwork: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
- Date it was created: ca.1848, Tokugawa Per. (Edo Per.)
- Media used: Woodblock impress (Ukioy-e) triptych
- Where it lives now: various (eg London, Coll. of Basil W. Robinson - sold at Christies inwards 2007 - it fetched £38,000)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1862) was Japanese together with i of the corking primary painter printmakers producing woodblock prints inwards the ukiyo-e style during the Edo period.
I assemble cats are considered to move creatures of skillful fortune inwards Nippon - together with that the whole field is besotted alongside them. Roger Brown tells me that non exclusively was Kuniyoshi a truthful cat lover he likewise owned 10 cats. I'm guessing we're seeing some of them inwards this print!
The Tokaido Road is the route betwixt Edo (Tokyo) together with Kyoto. It was was i of Five Routes linking the historical capitol of Edo to the residuum of Japan.
Ando Hiroshige (see my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker), some other of the Masters of Ukiyo-e prints produced many unlike editions of a serial of prints titled 'The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road' - i for each of the stations on the Tokkaodo Road. This serial established him every bit the most successful printmaker of his time.
It seems every bit Kuniyoshi was having some fun alongside this exceptional print. That's because the function is a parody.
The seat of each truthful cat is a pun on the hollo of the stations on the Tokkaido Road. You tin notice to a greater extent than explanation inwards this. Plus a serial of 53 images are condensed into a triptych every bit opposed to 53 dissever images. This site provides a detailed explanation of how each truthful cat translates to a station together with how the pun works. I used the translator available inwards Google Chrome.
You tin see to a greater extent than of Kuniyoshi's artwork on Wikipaintings together with his Ukiyo-e Prints on Wikimedia Commons.
You tin likewise read to a greater extent than About Japanese Art together with Artists on my website of the same name.
The right answers
It's been hard to justice the kickoff soul to larn the correct answer this week. In the halt I've gone alongside the kickoff soul who got all the right answers - together with that's Sandra Robinson (The Colour of Ideas). Ruth Harris was a unopen second.
Others who got the respond right were every bit follows (in order):
Please banknote subscriptions exclusively snuff it alive later yous bring verified the link inwards the e-mail yous volition receive
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