TACOMA, Wash. — When the Tacoma Art Museum needed someone to guest curate "Echoes of the Floating World," an exhibition about ...

Nestled in the heart of Dotonbori, this museum offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of traditional Japanese woodblock ...

O-Ei continued to devote her life to Ukiyo-e painting even after Hokusai's death. Ikeda Zenjiro, Ukiyo-e artist known as Keisai Eisen, gained great popularity for his Bijin-ga, portraits of women.

That, in turn, meant the erotic art was free of censorship that targeted other ukiyo-e works, allowing painters, woodcarvers and printers to use their skills to the fullest. The venue is closed ...

GLEN ELLYN, IL — A mural inspired by Hokusai and Ukiyo-E will be painted in downtown Glen Ellyn to coincide with The Floating World, an exhibit coming to Cleve Carney Museum of Art in May.

This bothered Clanuwat, as did “too many colors” showing up the AI art. Given that ukiyo-e are largely defined by using woodblocks for reproductions, there would have been a limited number of ...

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple ...

nineteenth- and twentieth-century American prints and paintings, Japanese ukiyo-e prints, nineteenth-century photography, video and new media art. The collection and staff of the Museum are resources ...

Utagawa Hiroshige is a fire warden from a low-ranking samurai family who is struggling to establish himself as an ukiyo-e artist ... Hiroshige is happy with his paintings, but for some reason ...

Born in 1760, Katsushika Hokusai took the medium known as ukiyo-e to new artistic heights and ... kindling the Japonisme movement in art and inspiring painters such as Claude Monet and Vincent ...

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