Judging from the painting materials, more than 70% of the contents are prostitute paintings (temporarily called "beauty paintings") and geisha paintings (temporarily called "artist paintings"), that is to say, the protagonists of the works are prostitutes and geisha, female, naked, sexy and beautiful, and pornography is its symbolic feature. From the point of view of modern art, it can be regarded as "the art of body painting", but a large number of sexual intercourse themes can't be compared with China's "Spring Painting", lacking artistry and poor techniques, but it still has certain aesthetic significance for appreciating sexy beauty.
The artistic origin of ukiyo-e painting, firstly, comes from painting, which inherits China's "spring painting" and house painting; First, from the literary point of view, influenced by Caozi (Caozi: Novel), the love death of the lascivious generation of Xihe women, lascivious generation of men and Jin Song's Zeng Genqi, and the love death of Skynet Island are all direct manifestations of literature "floating world writing", and the theme and theme are nothing more than pornography and prostitutes (of course, the literary value is not proportional to the theme of the work).
Therefore, "ukiyo-e" is a proper term of painting art, which has its specific connotation and extension. Western modern body painting draws lessons from Japanese "Ukiyo-e" themes and techniques, which is a positive side and has artistic aesthetic value.
The word "floating world" comes from Buddhist terms, and its original meaning is reincarnation of life and death, and the world is nothing. That is, this shore or filthy land, that is, worrying about the world or the world. Since the word "floating world" appeared in Japanese, it has always implied the meaning of pornography and debauchery.
Literally, "ukiyo-e" is taken for granted as a secular painting, similar to China's genre painting "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival". If this proper noun is extended to the field of literature and summarized as a description of secular customs, it will deviate from the established semantics more and more, almost equivalent to a typo. It is difficult for painters to accept such a definition. The Japanese were surprised that a Japanese word had such a big ambiguity after it was exported to China.
References:
(1) Japanese ukiyo-e sketch-written by Tanaka.
(2) Japanese art and society in the Tokugawa era-by Jiro Abe.
(3) The Conflict between Sex and Marriage in Japan-OTAI is writing.
The development of ukiyo-e painting;
In the edo period, color prints depicting scenery and people's customs and feelings were called "ukiyo-e". The origin of this name is because of the customs of kabuki and Huajie Liuxiang, which describes the floating world at that time. 1670, Master Lingchuan announced the sale of woodcuts printed in single ink, so he was called the founder of "Ukiyo-e". Ukiyo-e painting is characterized by block printing, mass production, low price and easy purchase. At first, there was only a single ink-printed painting (ink-folded painting) on the market, but soon a "red version" appeared, with red as the main color and yellow-green printing, which opened a new realm in the history of Japanese painting.
/kloc-In the middle of the 8th century, due to the prosperity of kabuki, the progress of engraving technology and the popularity of ukiyo-e, Suzuki Harunobu created colorful printed ukiyo-e-brocade. So the famous masters Suzuki Harunobu, torii Changqing and Beichuan Gewu appeared one after another. They can all draw very elegant and beautiful Japanese women, but their works have no personality and lack vitality, and often suggest that it is a decadent society.
Xie Le of Dongzhouzhai is also a famous painter. He described the expression changes and even the inner character of kabuki actors with high artistry, but his works were not very popular in his own time.
Just when the subjects of characters and customs were almost exhausted, Ge Shibei Zhai and Ando Hiroshige brought a new style to Ukiyo-e painting-landscape painting. Influenced by western copperplate prints, Ge Shibeizhai decided to create landscape paintings. He adopted bold composition and color in "Thirty-six Scenes of Swing", which was loved by people. Since then, he has painted a series of paintings of places of interest around the world. In the series "Fifty-three Tokaido", Ando Hiroshige described Japanese natural travelers in a narrative way, and his fame even surpassed that of Kitazawa. Later, he created a series of paintings with Japanese themes, such as Mu Sixty-nine.
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Ukiyo-e is a kind of folk printmaking art that rose with the development of local culture in Tokugawa era (16 ukiyo-e 03- 1867). Its origin comes from the original "Yamato Painting". "Yamato painting" is a highly decorative art, designed for the appreciation of nobles and popular in the upper class. Ukiyo-e painting is an art form that expresses people's daily life and interests.
At first, Ukiyo-e painting took "beauty painting" and "servant painting" (drama figure painting) as the main themes, and then gradually appeared works with sumo, scenery, flowers and birds and historical stories as the themes. The coloring of the picture began with black and white, gradually developed into simple colors, and finally became a multicolored "brocade painting".
Lingchuan Shixuan was the founder of Ukiyo-e painting in Luyuan period. It opened up a new realm for the history of Japanese painting. Ukiyo-e painting has been loved by the general public since its birth.
The composition of this print, like the ancient prints in China, was completed by the painter, sculptor and rubbingist in turn. First, the painter draws the picture, then the sculptor stereotypes it, and finally the rubbings it according to the different colors of the picture. This superb skill of carving complex and exquisite lines on the plane of the board and then painting them with color was once regarded as an incredible skill by western painters.
With the development of ukiyo-e painting, many famous painters appeared. Besides the founder Hishikawa Moronobu, Suzuki Harunobu, who opened the golden age of ukiyo-e, is more famous. Torii Changqing, a master of beautiful painting, and Gru Beichuan: Dong Zhouzhai, a master of drama painting, composed music; Realistic master Ge Shibei Zhai and other famous teachers who pushed landscape painting techniques to the peak. The above six people are called "six masters of Ukiyo-e painting".
Ukiyo-e painting has occupied the Japanese painting world for more than 260 years, and gradually declined before the Meiji Restoration. This pearl of oriental art spanning three centuries occupies a glorious page in the history of world art.