Old Masters for the Price of a Bowl of Noodles
Evening Standard - London › March 23, 2009
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THEY were small, mass-produced, and the artist's hand never touched the works. But the woodblock prints of the Japanese artist Kuniyoshi are masterpieces, and this exhilarating show, which brings together 150 of them from the endless goldmine of the British Museum's prints department, is easily one the contenders for London exhibition of the year.
Born in 1797, Utagawa Kuniyoshi was a younger contemporary of Hokusai, whose prints of Mount Fuji, especially the one with the curling "Great Wave" are the most famous images of Japanese art. Working in the same style, also a master of the "Floating World" school, Kuniyoshi's career spans the first half of the 19th century.See the full content of this document
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Old Masters for the Price of a Bowl of Noodles
He lived in Edo, at the time the largest city in the world, with more than a million inhabitants. He was at the apex...
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