print
- Museum number
- 2010,3020.1
- Title
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Object: Mechanism of Impression
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Series: Digital Art Chapter One
- Description
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Inkjet print combining Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet and View from Massaki by Utagawa Hiroshige.
- Production date
- 2000
- Dimensions
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Height: 55.90 centimetres
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Width: 43.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Abe is a Japanese artist working in New York who manipulates digital images to make thought-provoking, often witty comment on collisions between cultures; particularly between his native Japan and the West. Since 2000 he has been creating digital works -- which are then printed -- in a series of 'chapters' that highlight the key roles that both Ukiyo-e colour woodblock prints and evolving photographic technology played in the revolution in art in Japan and the West in the 19th century. He painstakingly uses 'Wrap' and other Photoshop techniques to blend, meld and manipulate digital images of iconic paintings from the European tradition with those of popular ukiyo-e prints by Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. In doing so, he foregrounds the jostling oppositions and tensions between so-called 'high' bourgeois culture and 'low' mass culture; Japanese art and Western art; art nudes with art tattoos; female versus male display; competing and cross-influencing technologies of painting, printmaking and photography. (Timothy Clark, Sep 2010)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Impression, Sunrise (painting title)
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Associated Title: Massaki-atari yori Suijin-no-mori Uchi-kawa Sekiya no sato o miru zu (print title)
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2010,3020.1
