Fuji no Yukei by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi Elements that might once have

Elements that might once have been architectural

mixing the warmth of traditional cartography with a contemporary flatness that keeps the work firmly in the present

Renoir's 'Bal du Moulin de la Galette' is one of the defining images of French Impressionism — a sun-soaked afternoon in Montmartre where Parisians dance

his application of colour restrained to the point of austerity

every tonal boundary clean

Fuji no Yukei by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi Elements that might once haveFuji no Yukei Evening View of Fuji places Kuniyoshi's compositional energy in an unusually contemplative mode. The mountain rises into a sky that moves through gradations of dusk colour, while the foreground establishes the traveller's viewpoint with the precise visual economy characteristic of ukiyo e landscape. Where Kuniyoshi's warrior prints use dynamic diagonals to generate tension, this work builds its effect through stillness: the great cone