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Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉, 1790–1848) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who specialised in bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women). His best works, including his ōkubi-e ("large head pictures"), are considered to be masterpieces of the "decadent" Bunsei Era (1818–1830).
The museum's growing collection of nearly 2,000 objects is derived from the major culture groups of sub-Saharan Africa and dates from the 12th century to the present. The collection features figure sculpture, masks, ritual objects, furniture and household and utilitarian objects, textiles, ceramics and metal arts, with an Egyptian false door, Yoruba mask, Benin bronze hip pendant, and a ...
The title page for the series of ukiyo-e prints.. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (木曾街道六十九次, Kisokaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen.
An Urban Couple Amidst their Clothing by Keisai Eisen, From the series Grass on the Way of Love (Koi no michikusa), c. 1825, Honolulu Museum of Art Date circa 1825
Eizan's work retains the sensitivities and lyricism that marks the Utamaro style, as opposed to the earthier realism and more overt sensuality of Kunisada and Keisai Eisen. Eizan, like Toyokuni I in actor prints, is the last manifestation of the classical ukiyo-e style in bijin work, with harmonious colors and graceful lines and subjects. After ...
Birmingham Museum may refer to: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England; Birmingham Museum of Art, in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. Birmingham Railway Museum, former name of the Tyseley Locomotive Works; Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, science museum in Birmingham, England
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BM&AG) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham, England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art , ceramics , metalwork , jewellery , natural history , archaeology , ethnography , local history and industrial history .
"The Birth-place of Birmingham Art" - Joseph Barber's studio in Edmund Street, Birmingham Birmingham's tradition in applied arts such as jewellery and metalwork predates the Industrial Revolution, [2] but organised activity in the fine arts of drawing, painting and printmaking began only with the town's huge growth in size and wealth in the 18th century, [3] after the growing realisation of ...