Untitled (EDO Series)

1989

Description

While living in Japan in the 1950s, Lillian Schwartz collected a large number of woodcut prints by the artists Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and Kitagawa Utamaro (c.1753–1806). They all created images of ukiyo-e, or “the floating world”—the transient, pleasure-filled life of Edo-period Japan. Schwartz was interested in how such Japanese prints had spread to Europe in the 19th century, influencing the visual style of artists such as Vincent van Gogh. She extended this process of artistic exchange in this work, for which she manipulated Utamaro’s woodblock print Naniwa Okita Admiring Herself in a Mirror (c.1790–95) with a computer program. Likely produced with the early image-editing software Pico, the print features bold overpainted colors and a triangular middle section which seems spliced, morphed, or sampled from another source.

Seated Nude (AP) Ken Knowlton1969 Print

MOMA Poster, 1984 by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1984

MOMA Poster, 1984 Lillian Feldman Schwartz1984 Print

Mona Leo by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1988

Mona Leo Lillian Feldman Schwartz1988 Print

MOMA poster, 1985 by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1985

MOMA poster, 1985 Lillian Feldman Schwartz1985 Print

BIG MOMA Poster (super-sized edition) by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1984

BIG MOMA Poster (super-sized edition) Lillian Feldman Schwartz1984 Print

Leo & I by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1989

Leo & I Lillian Feldman Schwartz1989 Print

Lillian 2 (Picturephone Self Portrait) by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1979

Lillian 2 (Picturephone Self Portrait) Lillian Feldman Schwartz1979 Print

www.beetles by Lillian Feldman Schwartz, 1996

www.beetles Lillian Feldman Schwartz1996 Print