Caught in the Act
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Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi
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- Fonte
- Il museo
Sull’opera
Shunga (erotic) prints featured every imaginable form of sexual activity, including voyeurism. Their explicit content resulted in their being condemned as ‘harmful to public morals’ and censored by the government. This, of course, did not stop the printmakers. But even today such images – many of which feature outrageously proportioned genitalia – are banned from
being imported back into Japan.
Rijksmuseum
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- RP-P-2006-287
Che cosa raffigura
In catalogo
Fonti
- Rijksmuseum
- Immagine: Rijksmuseum — public domain
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Suzuki Harunobu
Tutta la vita1765–1770
Five years at his peak: 20 books and a thousand prints
Between 1765 and 1770 Harunobu created over twenty illustrated books, over one thousand colour prints (other accounts give more than eight hundred works) and a number of paintings.
1765–1770
Recognised as the master of ukiyo-e and widely imitated
In the last years of his life Harunobu came to be regarded as the master of ukiyo-e and was widely imitated: many artists copied his style during his lifetime.
late 1760s
Master of bijin-ga and scenes of Edo life
Harunobu became one of the primary producers of pictures of beautiful women (bijin-ga) and scenes of urban life for the Edo print connoisseur market: his prints include not only geisha, courtesans and sumo wrestlers but also street vendors and errand boys. Accounts differ on portraits of kabuki actors: by some he was among the first to paint them, by others he scornfully refused the subject.
8 July 1770
Death
He died on 8 July 1770; he is said to have been 46.
