The Arts

The Arts — page 5 — t 2 S 12 CG ON 3 as W W This painting called Festival Day is from Hiroslie s Tokaido Road series In it travelers dimb to a restaurant perched on a scenic overlook Asian Art Archaeoloo Ire Corbis

The Arts — page 6 — HIR 0 S HIGE Artist of the Floating World ando Hiroshige was a Japanese painter and printmaker who CH was especially famous for his pictures of landscapes Hiroshige was one of the ukiyo e painters Ukiyo e is a Japanese term that means pictures of the floating world Hiroshige was born in 1797 When he was 14 Hiroshige joined the school of the ukiyo e master Utagawa Toyohiro He graduated as an artist from the school at only 15 His first work What was published six years later in 1818 important road was the Hiroshige probably created more than 5 000 prints during his subject of many lifetime His life as an artist was divided into three stages The of Hiroshige's first stage was when he was a student He followed the style of paintings his teachers in making prints of people He drew girls actors and samurai or warriors During the second stage Hiroshige made landscape designs and prints of birds and flowers His best works during this time were 55 landscape prints called the Fifty three Stations of the Tokaido Tokaido was a road that connected the Japanese cities of Osaka Kyoto and Edo now called Tokyo Along the road were 53 towns Inns in each town provided lodging food and gifts for travelers Hiroshige made one print for each town as well as one each for the beginning of the highway and the arrival in Kyoto Many people bought copies of the prints Hiroshige was soon one of the most popular ukiyo e artists of all time In the last stage of his work Hiroshige illustrated more landscapes Some empty and some with people in them But he did far too much work and his later work wasn't his best It has been estimated that Hiroshige created more than 5 000 prints He knew how to create very simply and beautifully what he saw LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES PAINTING DIEGO RIVERA SCULPTURE DID YOU KNOW The Tokaido Road had been in use for over 700 years when Hiroshige began to make pictures of it peo opel je sdos Jo sampd sy Joy snoue sem aximpsoIH Samsung

The Arts — page 7 — S T Murals of Mexico KNOW of Rockefeller Center New York City's communist leader Vadimir L Lenin featured That mural Rivera later painted in Mexico City received a government scholarship to study art at When he was only 10 years old Diego Rivera DID Yi the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City This The own would be the beginning of a brilliant art career ter in Later Rivera studied in Spain and in 1909 oral there been stored Rivera he moved to Paris There he became friends with important painters such as Pablo Picasso millions in seard now be a and Georges Braque While in France Rivera a co began using simple forms and bold colors in his painting Rivera returned to Mexico in 1921 after meeting fellow Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros The two shared a goal They decided to create a new uniquely Mexican kind of art based on revolutionary themes They wanted this art to decorate public buildings so they decided to paint murals Murals are paintings done on walls either inside or outside of buildings Rivera painted his first important mural Creation for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City 10

The Arts — page 8 — DIEGO RIVERA Like many of Rivera's murals this one focuses on the life of the common people The mural called Pan American Unity is painted on a wall at City College of San Francisco rights reserved unauthorized public performance broadcasting transmission or copying mechanical or electronic is a violation of applicable laws City College San Francisco Which of the following qualities applies to Rivera's work a bold colors b quiet pictures Rivera's many murals in his home country celebrated c pale colors Mexican history and life His paintings featured native Indians Spanish conquistadores Mexican peasants factory workers and famous philosophers politicians and other public figures He liked to show how farming industry and culture were all connected in people's lives His human figures had a flattened appearance and were outlined to emphasize their shape His works were brightly colored and crowded with figures which made his huge murals seem even larger Rivera was in the United States from 1930 to 1934 There he painted murals for the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco the Detroit Institute of Arts and Rockefeller Center in New York City Rivera's wife Frida Kahlo was also an important painter LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES HIROSHIGE PAINTING CARLO SANTANA 11 sood poq easury

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