Discussion 8

turn in everything by wk 10


print: impression made by a block onto a paper

  • many different types of printing

  • functions: able to replicate, mass produce, advertise, easily circulate

  • can buy/sell


why wood-block dominate print?

  • Japanese characters

  • textures of the characters from the wood-blocks

  • easier to do polychrome prints with it

  • ease/value

  • easier to do with colors/characters

  • cheap labor/material cost


print is not only a western thing


Nishiki-e

  • brocade pictures, 1765

Uki-e

  • floating pictures

Ukiyo-e

  • floating word illustrations


The Ukiyo-e Quartet

  1. Publisher

  2. Designer

  3. Carver

  4. Printer

  5. (Text copyist)


key block would be blue first

  • berlin blue


first color print & texture

  • Suzuki Harunobu


Hiroshige’s 100 views of edo

  • why certain areas?

  • have connection to famous person/event

  • visually/aesthetically pleasing

  • places people might want to go/visit


horizontal to vertical

can play with shadows

colors, playing with light and shadow on print

use of negative space


36 views of Mount Fuji

  • why important?

  • draws attention to japan & the

  • new views of Japan, the people, landscape

  • different view of the same place

  • use of new technology

  • trickles into tourism

  • popularize mt. fuji


Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa

lenkiewitez

  • more 3d, color palette different

  • fish, whales,