Courtesan+in+Procession--Kitagawa+Utamaro



Kitagawa Utamaro, Courtesan in Procession  1793-1795  Courtesan in procession is one of many of work of art done my Utamaro a Japanese [|printmaker] and printer of the Edo Period. The Courtesan in procession is currently in the collection of the University Of Michigan Museum Of Art in ann. arbor it was purchase from the Margaret Watson Parker art collection in 1962. The Courtesan in procession was one of high light of the Asian Galleries at the UMMA.   The Courtesan in procession by Utamaro is an image of beautiful women on her way to the palace. Utamaro use of color in the courtesan in procession some past the other Japanese are late Edo Period with is use of detail when it come to showing of real women of this time period as said “Utamaro portrays a courtesan on her way to a palace, dressed in a floral-patterned robe of black, white and gray. The level of detail in her dress is simply unmatched by any artist of the time: Not only with the patterns, but with every crease and fold Utamaro draws we can see the woman's exact movements. And like most of the courtesan portraits in the exhibit, her face is expressionless, heavily covered in white makeup”. My Jim Schiff.    In addition to be a beautiful thing to look at is also a woodblock print which were not will thought of my Japanese in to later. But Europe though every highly of then and try to collect at many as they can. Any of them come for French. Utamaro art works was one those works of art made it in way in to the hand of some the france [|Impressionists]  like [|Claude Monet] , [|Edgar Degas] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> who take some the way the Japanese printer use in there work. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Lastly Utamaro, The Courtesan in procession come for the Edo period as I said in my open. “ The **Edo period** ( 江戸時代   ,  //Edo-jidai//   [|**?**]  ), also referred to as the **Tokugawa period** ( 徳川時代 //Tokugawa-jidai//), is a division of [|Japanese history] running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the [|Edo] or [|Tokugawa shogunate], which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo [|shogun] [|Tokugawa Ieyasu]. The period ended with the [|Meiji Restoration], the restoration of [|imperial] [|rule] by the 15th and last shogun [|Tokugawa Yoshinobu]. The Edo period is also known as the beginning of the early modern period of Japan”. **Wikipedia,2008** <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In addition Edo period artists come out of the obaku school of zen .but Utamaro frist come out of the <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[|Kanō school] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> but later wait the obaku school. see the set below to go more on this people and the work of art for this period <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: 8.5pt; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Palatino-Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino-Roman;">Bibliography <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Palatino-Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Palatino-Roman;"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">http://www.michigandaily.com/content/u-asian-galleries-add-two-exhibits <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utamaro <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcut <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_period <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">http://www.umma.umich.edu/collections/japan.php <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">[|http://www.umma.umich.edu] <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; line-height: 200%; font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">