PAM’s Japanese Prints:
A Fleeting Glimpse
Catch these intriguing impressions while you still can.
Posted by: Anne Adams on Dec 29, 2011 at 01:00PM
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Suzuki Harunobu, A court poetess detains her rival, c. 1767/78, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
View Slideshow » Illustration:Utagawa Toyohiro, Parlor Puppets: Act VI of The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, c. 1803, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
View Slideshow » Illustration:Utagawa Kunisada, Young woman surrounded by the text of a libretto, c. 1832, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
View Slideshow » Illustration:Katsushika Hokusai, The Falling Mist Waterfall at Mount Kurokami in Shimotsuke Province, 1833/34, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
View Slideshow » Illustration:Utagawa Hiroshige, The Great Kashima Shrine in Hitachi Province, 1853, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
View Slideshow » Illustration:Totoya Hokkei, A bantam cock encounters a painting of a white rooster on a screen, 1825, The Mary Andrews Ladd Collection
They’ve been on view for a while now, but suddenly you’ve got less than a month left to see these rare and incredibly interesting Japanese prints at Portland Art Museum.
<<Click the image to the left to check out a few selections, and plan your visit before it’s too late! Also, be sure to read the titles, as they lend an extra layer of insight into the images they accompany. Otherwise, how would you guess that one of the roosters pictured was meant to be real, while the other was “a painting [within a painting] on a screen,” or that the differing scale of human subjects was meant to signify puppets? These prints’ seemingly simple woodblock form gives way to some pretty sophisticated perception-bending.
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