{"id":22541,"date":"2023-03-08T16:29:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=22541"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T16:29:42","slug":"the-art-of-hasui-kawase-1883-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/03\/08\/the-art-of-hasui-kawase-1883-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Hasui Kawase, 1883\u20131957"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past few months I’ve been nurturing a desire to create one or more pieces of art in the ukiyo-e<\/em> style, not bona fide woodblock prints\u2014I don’t have the materials or the experience\u2014but something that imitates the general look of such things. Other commitments have so far prevented my attempting anything but I keep browsing the work of the print-makers with an eye on the future. Hasui Kawase is very useful in this respect since he was one of the first Japanese artists to combine traditional subjects and print-making techniques with a graphic style influenced by Western art. The views and compositions are often familiar ones but there’s a greater sense of pictorial realism, especially in the treatment of light and shade which is exceptionally skilful. I especially like his nocturnes. Kawase was a very prolific artist so there’s a lot to see, Ukiyo-e.org<\/a> has over 3,000 of his prints on file. Many of these will be duplicates but that’s still a lot of work.<\/p>\n

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This is a necessarily limited selection from the collection of Kawase prints at Wikimedia Commons<\/a>. The quality of his work is so good you could easily make several posts like this one. For those who’d like to see more, two high-resolution print collections, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, are a good place to start.<\/p>\n

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Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Nineteen views of Zen gardens<\/a>
\n\u2022 Ten views of the Itsukushima Shrine<\/a>
\n\u2022 Charles Bartlett\u2019s prints<\/a>
\n\u2022 Sixteen views of Meoto Iwa<\/a>
\n\u2022 Waves and clouds<\/a>
\n\u2022 Yoshitoshi\u2019s ghosts<\/a>
\n\u2022 Japanese moons<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Hell Courtesan<\/a>
\n\u2022 Nocturnes<\/a>
\n\u2022 Henri Rivi\u00e8re\u2019s Eiffel Tower<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past few months I’ve been nurturing a desire to create one or more pieces of art in the ukiyo-e style, not bona fide woodblock prints\u2014I don’t have the materials or the experience\u2014but something that imitates the general look of such things. Other commitments have so far prevented my attempting anything but I keep … Continue reading “The art of Hasui Kawase, 1883\u20131957”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The art of Hasui Kawase, 1883\u20131957","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[11371],"class_list":["post-22541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-hasui-kawase"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5Rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}