Woman Walking in the Snow
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858)
Descubre la serenidad de Hiroshige (1797-1858), último gran maestro ukiyo-e japonés. Explora sus paisajes icónicos, estilo poético e influencia en el Impresionismo.
In his prints, Hiroshige used the unprinted white paper to represent snow, a technique also exploited in this painting, in which unpainted silk, reserved against the pale ink wash, suggests the snow-covered areas. Slightly bleeding ink creates the impression of fluffy snow, and snowflakes were rendered with splashes of opaque white pigment. By contrast, the figure"s partially revealed red undergarment intensifies the white.Hiroshige"s early works, of the mid-to late 1820s, depict slouching, long-faced women, while his later works present tall beauties in landscape settings, as in this scroll, made in the 1840s or early 1850s.
Sobre esta obra
- Título: Woman Walking in the Snow
- Artista: Utagawa Hiroshige
- Año: 1850
- Dimensiones originales: 79.0 x 32.0 cm
- Formato: Portrait
- Estado de derechos de autor: Dominio público
- Periodo de creación: Late Period
- Contexto del corpus: japanese landscape art , exploration of natural beauty
- Color predominante: Driftwood
- Palabras clave: 1850 japanese art , winter scene art , japanese art print


