What is Japanese ukiyo-e painting and how to appreciate it?

Japanese ukiyo-e painting is a genre painting and print developed on the basis of the Edo citizen class in the Edo era. It is an art type with strong national characteristics and belongs to the typical art of flower street and Liuxiang. It mainly depicts people's daily life, scenery and drama, and it presents a special hue and richness, which inspired the masters of many schools in Europe from classicism to impressionism in the19th century, and has high artistic value.

Ukiyo-e painting is usually regarded as color printing woodcut, which is also called brocade painting in Japanese, but there are also hand-painted works, which have high artistic value in Asian and world art.

Ukiyoe? Floating world? From Japanese? Worried about the world? Japan's social transition period, enjoy the present? This world? Instead of negative colors? Worried about the world? Then why? Floating world? It also reveals the psychological state of ordinary people enjoying the present and having fun in time.

In China's poems, the word floating world also appeared. Su Shi, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote? Shake the world and make it happen? Actually, it has a similar meaning.

Japan, right? Painting? The description of Chinese characters adds the meaning of color, which is a painting form based on color expression.

What are the artistic techniques of ukiyo-e painting? Meat painting? And woodcut prints, which are now familiar to everyone, mostly come from ukiyo-e paintings in the form of prints. Ukiyo-e prints mainly show the folk customs of life, which is also its charm.

Scholar Li Pan once wrote in the book Ukiyo-e Painting. Ukiyo-e painting in a narrow sense evolved from traditional Japanese Yamato painting and genre painting. Broadly speaking, it also absorbed the principles of China's Ming and Qing prints and the perspective of western painting. ? Ukiyo-e painting is a natural product of the development of Japanese art. After the integration of foreign cultures, it finally formed its own unique artistic characteristics. Ukiyo-e painting, as a classic style of Japanese art, is mostly a beautiful figure and a symbolic eagle claw wave of surfing in Kanagawa. Therefore, in the development of ukiyo-e, women and scenery once became the favorite themes of ukiyo-e.