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Creator Name: Utamaro, Kitagawa
Creator Nationality: Asian; Far East Asian; Japanese
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1754 - 1806
Creator Name-CRT: Kitagawa Utamaro
Title: A Beauty of the South
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1791
Creation End Date: 1795
Creation Date: about 1793
Object Type: Prints
Materials and Techniques: color woodblock print
Dimensions: H.14-3/4 x W.9-3/4 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 74.1.145
Credit Line: Bequest of Richard P. Gale
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context: The art of ukiyo-e reached its zenith in the 1790's because of the work of several extraordinary artists, among them the designer of this print, Kitagawa Utamaro. One of Utamaro's innovations was the dramatic okubi-e, literally "large head pictures," featuring close-up portraits of beautiful women. This print is from a series entitled Nangoku bijin awase, or "Beauties of the South" showing famously attractive women from Shinagawa, southwest of Tokyo. The woman's fan depicts a scene of Shinagawa Bay. The background in this print owes its delicate shimmering quality to mica, a reflective metal oxide. Mica was finely ground, mixed with adhesive, and then applied to the paper, often with a stencil and brush. Occasionally the mica was colored with the addition of pigment to create a pink or gray background, but here the mica was left white. Mica backgrounds were popular from around 1793. They were later replaced with printed gray backgrounds because the mica surface tended to scratch or crack easily.
AMICA ID: MIA_.74.1.145
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights:
?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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