1840
ink
paper
From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled is a 1840 ink by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a Romanticism work, depicting Tree, held at Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This print shows three people working near a volcano. The mountain is puffing smoke, and the sky is bright with fluffy clouds. One person is shoveling, another is carrying something heavy, and a third sits resting. A tall, bare tree stands to the right, and a small boat floats in the distance. The artist used simple shapes and bold outlines to show the scene. The colors are soft—mostly browns, blues, and whites—with a few green hills in the background. Look up cross-hatching to see how artists create shading with lines.
Kuniyoshi grew up in old Tokyo when the city was still called Edo. His dad ran a silk shop, but Kuniyoshi loved anything with pictures—scrolls, screens, comic books. He talked his way into the Utagawa school, a kind of…
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