![]() ![]() The shin hanga movement was a revival of its precursor, ukiyo-e art (images of the floating world) which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. As emblematic images of popular imagination, these woodblock prints, printed on high-quality paper using the finest pigments, can be ranked alongside Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. “The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa” (1832) by Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige’s “Sudden Shower over the Great Bridge at Atake” (1857), the countless beautiful women prints by Kitagawa Utamaro and the actor heads of Toshūsai Sharaku. Who doesn’t recognize the most iconic Japanese prints? as Chris Uhlenbeck questions. They haven’t been alone: since the 1990s, museums and private collectors have shown a growing interest in shin hanga. The shin hanga (“new prints”) movement reflects the syncretism of Western and traditional Japanese cultures as well as the influence of western codes on Japanese prints.Ĭompiled by Chris Uhlenbecc, Shin Hanga: The New Prints of Japan 1900-1960 brings together the work of two Dutch collectors Tobias Lintvelt and René Scholten who have been captivated by the new prints of Japan. Yet, the early 20th century was a period in which Japanese arts in general underwent profound transformations with a growing familiarity with modern European art movements and modernism was certainly felt in the realm of printmaking. Printmaking was an art form that Japanese artists had excelled in the 18th and 19th centuries but which eventually experienced a decline in the 20th century.
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