JAPANESE ARTS

PAINTING SUBJECT OR THEMES

1. Scenes from everyday life

2. narrative scenes crowded
with figures and details

WOODBLOCK PRINTING
- Is technique for printing text, images or
patterns used widely throughout East
Asia.
- It became one of their oldest and most highly
developed visual arts.
- It originated in China as a method of printing on
textiles but eventually became a method for
printing on paper.
- This method was adapted
in Japan during the Edo
Period.
- The most common theme
in Japan for printmaking
describes scenes from
everyday life. It narrates
the scene and is often packed with figures and
detail.
 JAPANESE UKIYO-E
- The best known and most popular
style of Japanese art is Ukiyo-e,
which is Japanese for “pictures of the
floating world”.
- It is related to the style of woodblock
print making that shows scenes of
harmony and carefree everyday
living.
- Ukiyo-e art was produced in a
diversity of different media, including painting and
became an art domain of the upper classes and
royalty but later was also produced by the common
people.
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