arelativenewcomer:Flying Beauties of Suzuki HarunobuSuzuki Harunobu (c. 1725–1770) was an innovator
arelativenewcomer:Flying Beauties of Suzuki HarunobuSuzuki Harunobu (c. 1725–1770) was an innovator who exerted great influence on the development of Japanese woodblock prints. He was the first to produce full-colour prints called nishiki-e (literally ‘brocade imagesʼ). His work embraced a great variety of subjects: depiction of beautiful women, kabuki actors, illustrations of poems and tales, erotic scenes, and—last but not least—original representations of scenes from everyday life. Harunobuʼs style is distinguished by balanced compositions, fineness and poetic charm.Harunobuʼs flying beauties have drawn my attention some time ago. There is something surreal about these images, executed in fine, restless lines against an empty, neutral background. They quite literally sum up the notion of the ‘floating worldʼ of ephemeral beauty.Top to bottom, left to right: Woman Riding a Phoenix, 1765 [source]; Girl Jumping from a Balcony of the Kiyomizu Temple, 1765 [source]; Woman Flying on a Length of Cloth; Parody of the Taoist Immortal Wu Zhishi, 1765 [source]; Girl Riding a Flying Goose; Parody of the Taoist Immortal Liu Nu, 1766 [source]; Woman Riding a Crane, 1765 [source]. -- source link
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