Inundadas de Cor: Gravuras Francesas e Japonêsas

Anne Allen, after Jean Baptiste Pillement, Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois no. 2, c. 1796-98, Color etching. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.

Smart Museum of Art - Chicago

04 de outubro de 2012, 20 de janeiro de 2013

A Universidade de Chicago e o Smart Museum of Art apresentam Inundadas de Cor: Gravuras Francesas e Japonêsas, uma nova exposição que analisa as distintas e sobrepostas tradições das gravura a cor na França e no Japão.

Henri Rivière, Vegetable Garden at Ville-Hue (Saint-Briac), 1890, From the Breton Landscapes, Color woodblock print printed from eight blocks on eighteenth-century Japanese laid paper. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.

University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art presents Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints, a new exhibition that examines the distinct yet overlapping traditions of color printmaking in France and Japan. 

Kitagawa Utamaro, Taking Shelter from a Sudden Summer Shower under a Huge Tree, early 1790s, Color woodblock print, triptych. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.

A exposição apresenta mais de 130 estampas requintadas e livros ilustrados do século 18 ao século 20. Junto com conhecidos cartazes de Toulouse-Lautrec e icônicas imagens  ukiyo-e "imagens do mundo flutuante", e os objetos apresentados também incluem gravuras entalhadas com cores virtuosas feitas antes da Revolução Francesa e estampas japonesas corajosamente coloridas  que se aproveitaram de corantes químicos importados da Europa .

Louis Le Coeur and J.-F.-J. Swebach-Desfontaines, Bal de la Bastille, 1790, Etching and wash manner. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

The exhibition presents more than 130 exquisite prints and illustrated books from the 18th to 20th century. Along with well-known posters by Toulouse-Lautrec and iconic ukiyo-e “images of the floating world,” featured objects also include virtuoso color intaglio prints made before the French Revolution and boldly colored Japanese prints that took advantage of chemical dyes imported from Europe.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais, 1892–93, Color lithograph. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.

Com estas obras magníficas - extraídas de participações substanciais do SMART, bem como importantes coleções públicas e privadas em todo o país - Inundadas de Cor tece uma história dupla, tocando nas estruturas sociais, as forças comerciais, e inovações tecnológicas que ajudaram a moldar a gravura de cor em ambas as culturas.

Utagawa Kunisada II, The Actor Onoe Kikujir? II as Funadama Osai in the play Koharu nagi okitsu shiranami, 1864, Color woodblock print. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.

With these breathtaking works — drawn from the Smart’s substantial holdings as well as major public and private collections across the country — Awash in Color weaves a dual history, touching on the social structures, commercial forces, and technological innovations that helped to shape color printmaking in both cultures. 

Utagawa (And?) Hiroshige, Narumi: Shop With Famous Arimatsu Tie-Dyed Cloth (Narumi, meisan Arimatsu shibori mise), #41 from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road, also known as the Vertical Tokaido, 1855, Color woodblock print. Courtesy Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Niles Higinbotham.

Juntamente com um catálogo que a acompanha, a exposição dá maior amplitude e profundidade ao nosso entendimento de uma das trocas mais frutíferas artísticas entre o Oriente e o Ocidente.

Katsushika Hokusai, Poppies, c. 1833–34, Color woodblock print. Courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago.

Together with an accompanying catalogue, the exhibition adds breadth and depth to our understanding of one of the most fruitful artistic exchanges between East and West.

George Auriol, Program for Le Théâtre Libre, 1889, Five-color lithograph. Courtesy Spencer Museum of Art.

A exposição é comissariada pelo Chelsea Foxwell, professor assistente de História da Arte da Universidade de Chicago, e Anne Leonard, Curadora e Diretora Associada do Smart de iniciativas acadêmicas.

Katsushika Hokusai, Mishima Pass in Kai Province (Koshu Mishimagoe), early 1830s, from the Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji, Color woodblock print. Courtesy Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.

The exhibition is curated by Chelsea Foxwell, Assistant Professor of Art History at The University of Chicago, and Anne Leonard, Smart Museum Curator and Associate Director of Academic Initiatives.