Ukiyo-e in da House!!!
The love of Uncle Maruo got me into some of Yoshitoshi’s work, which got me into Ukiyo-e (a kind of of Japanese woodblock printing). I blew my top off when I found out I lived pretty close to a museum full of Ukiyo-e!
Sorry about the camera flash well…pretty much ruining the pics :). Not only that, but between the dark room and my lousy camera, the colours aren’t nearly as good as they looked when I laid my eyeballs on them!
Bat!
There’s some great colour going on in these pics in my opinion. I think the aging of the paper only makes it that much cooler.
How did I not notice the wicked die on this dude’s noggin before!? If I could be slain by any warrior…
I really recommend that people who are into learning more about colour to check out this kind of work. It’s taken me a long time to realize that tons of the greatest stuff in art is the oldest. See how retarded that makes me sound???
May 29th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Try to track down a copy of Ukiyo-e by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara; it’s a bunch of these lovely old prints “remixed” by drawing and painting over them to create something totally new.
May 29th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hey cool, I’ll definately look that up.
Thanks!
June 1st, 2008 at 1:45 pm
This is great stuff Gary, you should throw as much Japanese art up on this site as you can while you travel.
I love how this man wears a singe die as a helmet. Luck is his armour.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Thanks, Doug. I was wondering if I was putting up too much Japan related stuff, but it’s kinda always around so maybe I should just go with it.