The artists I intend to study is Kitagawa Utamaru who
specialises in woodblock art and painting, and is known for his popular
composed illustrations of ‘bijinga’ such as the Geisha series ‘Flowers of Edo’,
which had a great influence towards many artists in Europe with Utamaru’s
emphasis of light and shade. I will then be exploring the style of his work
which is presented in a 2-Dimensional form in contrast to the Japanese
illustrations now which is delivered in a 3-Dimentional form for a realistic
overview of the art, and also over viewing how it differs from my other chosen
artist who shares the similar concept, each conveying it through very different
styles providing a sense of a theme ‘same but different’.
The second artist I will be researching into is of a similar
artist called Kobayakawa Kiyoshi who is also another specialist in the field of
woodblock art and ‘bijinga’. The main aspect of their work I will be
concentrating on is the strong contrast of his multiple different series of art
work he has produced with varieties of pieces of traditional woman to a series
of modern western-styled woman with one particular piece of a woman holding a
cigarette displaying the juxtaposition between the two contrasting series. This
depicts the end of the traditional ‘bijinga’ woman and a new era and outbreak of
Japanese modern culture. I will also be studying his choices of patterns and
combinations of colours shown complimenting the different colours against one
another through the clothing of the woman on his pieces presenting the contrast
between Kiyoshi’s clashes of bright, colourful style of art to Utamaru’s faded,
subtle colours.
And the third artist I will be studying is Masashi Kishimoto
who is very well known for his artwork of the Anime/ Manga ‘Naruto’ which is
one of the most popular anime/ manga internationally admired by millions of
people. I will be examining the style of illustrations to comics/ graphic
novels the artist produces developing skills in the field of comics which is a
new environment for me.
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