Documents for "Asian and Middle Eastern Art: Biographies":

• Ando Hiroshige see Hiroshige.

• Bada Shanren see Chu Ta.

• Chu Ta or Zhu Da , c.1626-c.1705, Chinese painter and calligrapher, also known as Pa-ta-shan-jen or Bada Shanren. Said to have been a descendant of the imperial Ming family, he was a child prodigy, a poet at 7 and a...

• Harunobu, Suzuki (Suzuki Harunobu) , 1724-70, Japanese color-print artist of the ukiyo-e school. He was the first to use a wide range of colors effectively in printing. In 1765 he created multicolored calendar prints from wood...

• Hiroshige (Ando Hiroshige) , 1797-1858, Japanese painter and color-print artist of the ukiyo-e school. His prolific work includes a series of landscapes (1833) entitled Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido Highway....

• Hishikawa Moronobu see Moronobu.

• Hokusai (Katsushika Hokusai) , 1760-1849, Japanese painter, draftsman, and wood engraver, one of the foremost ukiyo-e print designers. After producing wood engravings for several years, he became a pupil of the celebrated...

• Hsia Kuei c.1180-1230, Chinese painter of the Sung dynasty. Little is known of his life. He and his contemporary Ma Yüan were regarded as the greatest landscape painters of the day and were the founders of...

• Iwasa Matabei see Matabei.

• Josetsu fl. 1425, Japanese landscape painter, teacher, and priest. His work shows the formal characteristics of Chinese suiboku-ga (black-and-white) painting. He worked in Kyoto, where Shubun was his pupil....

• Kanaoka fl. 2d half of 9th cent., Japanese landscape and figure painter, founder of the Kose school of painting. None of his works survives, but tradition says that he was the first Japanese painter to...

• Kano family or school of Japanese painters. Kano Masanobu, c.1434-c.1530, the forerunner of the school, was attached to the shogun Yoshimasa's court. He painted landscapes, birds, and figure pieces, chiefly in ink with occasional touches of pale tints. His...

• Katsushika Hokusai see Hokusai.

• Kikuchi Yosai Yosai.

• Kitagawa Utamaro see Utamaro.

• Kiyonaga 1752-1815, Japanese painter and designer of woodcuts of the Torii school. After working as a bookseller in Tokyo, he took lessons from the Torii master Kiyomitsu but created a more individual...

• Kiyonobu I (Torii Kiyonobu I) , 1664-1729, Japanese printmaker. Specializing in portraits of Kabuki actors, Kiyonobu I worked in the ukiyo-e print style (see Japanese art ), concentrating on intricate elements of costume design. Flat and vividly colorful, Kiyonobu's work was notable for its sweeping contour lines and for the boldness of its composition. Kiyonobu was...

• Koetsu Hon'ami 1558-1637, Japanese artist, poet, calligrapher, tea master, and landscape gardener. Considered one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 17th cent., his painting, calligraphy, and...

• Kose no Kanaoka see Kanaoka.

• Ku K'ai-chih c.344-c.406, Chinese painter, one of the most eminent painters before the T'ang dynasty. He was especially noted for his portraits but also painted landscapes. None of his works survive today, but...

• Li T'ang c.1050-1130, Chinese painter of the Sung dynasty. A leader of the academy founded by the Emperor Hui-tsung, he established a mode of painting that was widely followed in succeeding centuries. A...

• Ma Yüan fl. c.1190-1225, Chinese painter of the Sung dynasty and foremost of the Ma family of painters. He became one of the most important landscape painters of the 12th and 13th cent., the other being Hsia Kuei. He was known for his "one-cornered" compositions, in which dramatic effect was achieved by crisp, forceful brushstrokes, asymmetrical arrangement of elements, and drastic elimination of all but essentials. Attribution of his works is...

• Matabei (Iwasa Matabei) , 1578-1650, Japanese artist, specializing in genre scenes of historical events and illustrations of classical Chinese and Japanese literature, as well as portraits. His work was noted for its...

• Moronobu (Hishikawa Moronobu) , c.1618-c.1694, Japanese painter and color-print designer of the ukiyo-e school. He began his career as an embroiderer. His first of more than 130 illustrated books (1658) is usually regarded as...

• Ogata Kenzan 1663-1743, Japanese potter and painter; younger brother of Ogata Korin. A follower of the Rimpa school, he set up kilns for the production of ceramics in the early to mid-Edo period. Proficient in the art of ceramic design and decoration, many of his pieces were of a...

• Ogata Korin 1658-1716, Japanese decorator and painter. He is renowned for his lacquer work and paintings on screens, decorated with bold designs and striking color contrasts, and his masterful compositional...

• Pa-ta-shan-jen see Chu Ta.

• Sesshu 1420-1506, foremost Japanese master of ink painting ( suiboku ) and Zen Buddhist priest, also known as Sesshu Toyo. He may have studied under Shubun in Kyoto. He made a trip to China (c.1467), visiting many Zen monasteries and studying the works of old masters. Adapting the Chinese style of landscape painting, he set the standard in ink...

• Sharaku Toshusai fl. 1794, Japanese artist. Extant sources indicate that he was either Saito Jurobei, a Noh dancer in the employ of the Daimyo of Awa, or that his name was Toshusai and he lived in Hatchobori...

• Shen Chou 1427-1509, Chinese painter of the Ming dynasty. He and Wen Cheng-Ming (1470-1559) were the two most important painters of the Wu school, a group of leading literati artists who lived in the region around Wu-Hsien. Withdrawn from worldly pursuits, Shen Chou developed a distinctive style through careful study of the works of the great Yuan dynasty masters. Some...

• Shih-T'ao 1641-c.1670, Chinese painter of the late Ming-early Ch'ing period, one of the major figures in 17th-century painting. A descendant of the imperial Ming family, he escaped persecution from the...

• Shubun fl. 1st half of 15th cent., Japanese painter and Zen Buddhist priest. He studied under Josetsu , and became the central figure in the renaissance in Japan of the Chinese style of ink painting. Shubun and Sesshu , who may have been his pupil, are regarded as the two greatest masters of ink painting of the Muromachi period. There are many landscape paintings in ink attributed to Shubun, which vary in quality...

• Shunsho (Katsukawa Shunsho) , 1726-92, Japanese painter and printmaker. A painter of the ukiyo-e style (see Japanese art ), in which costume design and color are executed with precision in an otherwise stylized setting, Shunsho specialized in portraits of Kabuki actors in their famous roles. Shunsho was noted for his...

• Sotatsu Tawaraya fl. early 1600s, Japanese artist. With Koetsu he is credited with founding the decorative Rimpa school of Japanese painting. A painter who revived yamato-e style by augmenting its lyric quality with brilliant colors and a bold graphic sense,...

• Suzuki Harunobu see Harunobu.

• Tosa Tsunetaka see Tsunetaka.

• Toyokuni 1769-1825, Japanese color-print artist, whose name in full was Toyokuni Utagawa. He was one of the leading masters of the period of the popular ukiyo-e school. After many failures to appeal to the...

• Tsunetaka (Tosa Tsunetaka) , fl. 12th cent., Japanese painter. He held the title of vice lord of Tosa, and later artists of the Tosa clan claimed him as the founder of their school, although there is no proof of any lineal...

• Tung Ch'i-ch'ang 1555-1636, leading painter, calligrapher, connoisseur, and critic of the Ming dynasty. A high official in various public offices, was also regarded as the greatest art expert of his day. He was...

• Utamaro (Kitagawa Utamaro) , 1753-1806, Japanese color-print artist, best known for his portrayals of women. Although he enjoyed enormous success during his lifetime, not much is known about his life except that he was...

• Yen Li-pen d. 673, Chinese painter, foremost master of the T'ang dynasty. He became the most celebrated court painter of the 7th cent. and held several high public offices. Although probably none of his...

• Yosai (Kikuchi Yosai) , 1788-1878, Japanese painter, known for his depiction of historical subject matter. Although he was well trained in the Chinese and Western painting styles, he advocated a revival of the medieval...