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ukiyo-e

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ukiyo-e [ˌuːkiːjəʊˈjeɪ]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a school of Japanese painting depicting subjects from everyday life
[Japanese: pictures of the floating world]


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In the 19th century, the famed ukiyo-e artist Ando Hiroshige produced his own series of prints, "The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido.
Degas, Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec all admired the two dimensional imagery of ukiyo-e, its composition and flat areas of bold colours.
He works in a style that refers both to comic-book art and traditional Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
 
 
 
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