Who Painted This? #20
Wednesday, 26 February 2020
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This calendar week it's non a painting. First y'all withdraw to operate out what it is.
I accept a prissy develop of clues lined upwards for y'all all if there's no progress inwards identifying the scene as well as the artist.
How to participate inwards "Who painted this? #20"
PLEASE brand certain y'all read the rules earlier posting a comment - as well as ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what y'all 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 tardily i end calendar week - equally a issue of people found out.
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1862) was Japanese as well as i of the dandy principal painter printmakers producing woodblock prints inwards the ukiyo-e style during the Edo period.
I get together cats are considered to hold upwards creatures of expert fortune inwards Nippon - as well as that the whole patch is besotted amongst them. Roger Brown tells me that non solely was Kuniyoshi a truthful cat lover he equally good owned 10 cats. I'm guessing we're seeing some of them inwards this print!
The Tokaido Road is the route betwixt Edo (Tokyo) as well as Kyoto. It was was i of Five Routes linking the historical capitol of Edo to the residual of Japan.
Ando Hiroshige (see my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker), some other of the Masters of Ukiyo-e prints produced many dissimilar 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 equally the most successful printmaker of his time.
It seems equally Kuniyoshi was having some fun amongst this exceptional print. That's because the operate is a parody.
The position of each truthful cat is a pun on the scream of the stations on the Tokkaido Road. You tin plough over notice abide by to a greater extent than explanation inwards this. Plus a serial of 53 images are condensed into a triptych equally opposed to 53 divide images. This site provides a detailed explanation of how each truthful cat translates to a station as well as how the pun works. I used the translator available inwards Google Chrome.
You tin plough over notice see to a greater extent than of Kuniyoshi's artwork on Wikipaintings as well as his Ukiyo-e Prints on Wikimedia Commons.
You tin plough over notice equally good read to a greater extent than About Japanese Art as well as Artists on my website of the same name.
The right answers
It's been hard to justice the kickoff individual to instruct the correct answer this week. In the halt I've gone amongst the kickoff individual who got all the right answers - as well as that's Sandra Robinson (The Colour of Ideas). Ruth Harris was a unopen second.
Others who got the reply right were equally 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 y'all read the rules earlier posting a comment - as well as ONLY POST ON THIS BLOG what y'all 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 abide by the answer
- search using words solely on a database of images
- leave your reply equally a comment on this blog
- if right it volition non hold upwards published until the adjacent post - which provides the answer
- if incorrect it volition hold upwards published
- do non move out the reply on Facebook!
- the winner - who gets a get upwards as well as a link on/from this weblog - is the kickoff individual to plough over me a completely right reply for ALL the things I desire to know
Not such an tardily i end calendar week - equally a issue of people found out.
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| Cats suggested equally the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido |
- Title of the artwork Cats suggested equally the 50 iii stations of the Tokaido
- Name of the creative individual 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 as well as i of the dandy principal painter printmakers producing woodblock prints inwards the ukiyo-e style during the Edo period.
I get together cats are considered to hold upwards creatures of expert fortune inwards Nippon - as well as that the whole patch is besotted amongst them. Roger Brown tells me that non solely was Kuniyoshi a truthful cat lover he equally good owned 10 cats. I'm guessing we're seeing some of them inwards this print!
The Tokaido Road is the route betwixt Edo (Tokyo) as well as Kyoto. It was was i of Five Routes linking the historical capitol of Edo to the residual of Japan.
Ando Hiroshige (see my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker), some other of the Masters of Ukiyo-e prints produced many dissimilar 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 equally the most successful printmaker of his time.
It seems equally Kuniyoshi was having some fun amongst this exceptional print. That's because the operate is a parody.
The position of each truthful cat is a pun on the scream of the stations on the Tokkaido Road. You tin plough over notice abide by to a greater extent than explanation inwards this. Plus a serial of 53 images are condensed into a triptych equally opposed to 53 divide images. This site provides a detailed explanation of how each truthful cat translates to a station as well as how the pun works. I used the translator available inwards Google Chrome.
You tin plough over notice see to a greater extent than of Kuniyoshi's artwork on Wikipaintings as well as his Ukiyo-e Prints on Wikimedia Commons.
You tin plough over notice equally good read to a greater extent than About Japanese Art as well as Artists on my website of the same name.
The right answers
It's been hard to justice the kickoff individual to instruct the correct answer this week. In the halt I've gone amongst the kickoff individual who got all the right answers - as well as that's Sandra Robinson (The Colour of Ideas). Ruth Harris was a unopen second.
Others who got the reply right were equally follows (in order):
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