描述

梵高于1886年3月前往巴黎，逗留巴黎期间，搜集了大量日本浮世绘风格的雕版作品。他对这类艺术深表兴趣，用浮世绘装饰自己的画室。梵高搜集的浮世绘版本多达上百件，并在自己的很多作品中运用浮世绘风格。1887年画作《唐吉老爹》的背景就有几幅浮世绘。1887年，梵高临摹了《巴黎插图》（Paris Illustre）杂志上刊登的溪斋英泉的浮世绘，在此基础上进行再创作，完成仿英泉的《花魁》。1888年，以浮世绘画家歌川广重作品为原型仿作的《李树开花》，更是强烈表现了梵高对日本艺术的热爱。虽然和广重原作相比，梵高仿作的线条明显粗矿。

Japanese syuga 【CURIOSA,Erotica】LUSTFUL FUN（INRAKU）by Keisai Eisen

yoko-e 11×17cm,20p, From the late Bunka era (1804-19).10 annotated ukiyo-e spring paintings constitute a spectacular scene of lewdness. They are overprinted with color woodblocks and have exquisite details. They are unrecorded and have been made public for the first time.

Keisai Eisen（1790-1848）：The son of the calligrapher and poet Ikeda Shigeharu, Eisen studied painting with Kano Hakkeisai, a senior student at the Kano Eisen-in studio. He later boarded at the house of the genre painter, Kikugawa Eijiri where he met Eijiri’s second son, the artist Kikugawa Eizan (1787-1867).  he became Eizan’s student who gave him the name Eisen in 1816.

From the late Bunka era (1804-19) onwards many illustrations for the various genres of popular literature as well as surimono and a large output of single-sheet prints of women, including some fine bust portraits, exploring the world of the unlicensed pleasure quarters of Edo in his own rich, seductive style. Also many illustrations to erotic works.

Eisen painted a relatively large number of hanging scrolls of beauties, sometimes with particularly large (half life-size) figures drawn so that they appear to get larger the higher up the body they are viewed, giving them very vivid presence. The eyes are set wide apart with particularly luxuriant lashes and the pupils always glancing off to one side, but otherwise the faces are not unlike those painted by Eizan.

Although Eisen was born into a samurai family which would have accorded him some social status, he experienced a painful fall from grace triggered by the deaths of first his father and then his stepmother only months apart in 1810. At the age of 20, Eisen was forced to find ways to support himself as well as three younger half-sisters.

He began producing shunga the following year, relatively early in his artistic career. Unlike his contemporaries in the studio of Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) who was chastened by a crackdown in 1804 by the authorities and apparently forbade his students to produce shunga for a considerable period.

Eisen designed shunga albums and novels with his own text, narratives and even his own calligraphy. Although the lavish shunga publications were mostly produced under pseudonyms, his distinctive style was easily identifiable and invited scrutiny which eventually forced him to give up his samurai rank.

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