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TIME TRAVEL
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Permanent Marker, Acrylic, Watercolor
SKULL CAT
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Ink, acrylic on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Permanent Marker
Sit woman pastel drawing
By Rafael Duran Benet
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Sit woman - Pastel
Drawing measurements 62x42 cm.
Frame measurements 82x62 cm.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
MAGIC CAT
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Watercolor, Permanent Marker
Woman smoking pencil drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 74x61 cm.
Category
1950s Academic Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Ballpoint pen drawing female face
By José Luis Fuentetaja
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 44x35 cm.
Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951.
After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing.
At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts.
At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it.
When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home.
At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically.
While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting.
In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets.
In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists.
He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam.
In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line.
He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada.
Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio.
He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970.
He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano.
His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings.
He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings.
During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León...
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2010s Realist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ballpoint Pen
ABSTRACT FACES
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
acrIcrylic on cardboard
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Stevedore Barcelona Spain charcoal drawing
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Dionis Baixeras i Verdaguer (1862-1943) - Docker - Charcoal drawing
Drawing measurements 58x43 cm.
Frame measurements 74x59 cm.
Dionisio Baixeras Verdaguer (Barcelona, 1862-1943),...
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Late 19th Century Modern Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
ADVENTURE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Domingo Alvarez Gómez (1942) - Retrato femenino - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el artista
Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra
Medidas obra: 65 cm. de altura x 50 cm. de ancho
Buen estado de conservación el de la obra
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Late 20th Century Academic Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
LONG WALKS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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NIGHT ADVENTURE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
MERMAID SONGS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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beggars spanish modernism colored pencils
By Ricard Opisso Sala
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Beggars - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 21x31cm.
Frame measures 39x48 cm.
Damaged paper at bottom.
Anti-reflective glass.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas...
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1940s Modern Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
POETRY OF LOVE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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FLY
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Acrylic, Permanent Marker
HAPPY TOGETHER
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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WITH CATS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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MOON
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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QUEEN OF THE ABSURD
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original art by Daria Kusto.
Ink on wotercolor paper.
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Permanent Marker
Sit woman pencil drawing
By Casimir Martinez Tarrasso
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Casimiro Martinez Tarrassó (1900-1979) - Seated Woman - Pencil
Drawing measures 31x21 cm.
Frame measures 47x37 cm.
MARTINEZ TARRASSO, Casimiro – Barcelona 1900 - 1979
Casimiro Martínez Tarrasó, known as TARRASSO, trained at the La Lonja school in Barcelona, completed his studies in Paris where he was able to see first-hand the Fauvist works that were shaking the Parisian artistic environment at this time. He cultivated still life and Catalan and Mallorcan landscapes and held his first exhibition in 1928 at the Galerías Layetanas in Barcelona and since then his shows have followed one another in Barcelona, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca and Bilbao. His awards include the Pollença in 1962 and the Santiago...
Category
1970s Impressionist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative painting, Love for a farmer´s wife, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series XVII (nº 17)
Title: Love for a farmer´s wife
Sensual portrait of a young and beautiful farmer´s wife. Her cheerful and careless gesture, showing her chest between the open folds of the neckline of his humble dress; the strands of hair falling on her temples, and her smiling gesture denote the state of happiness enjoying love, in a well-deserved break from her hard work.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Spanish folk dance Jota pastel drawing
By Alfredo Opisso
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Alfredo Opisso Cardona (1907-1980) - Jota - Pastel
Measures work 46x36cm.
Frame measures 65x55 cm.
Category
1960s Modern Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Karagoto of the Chojiya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series I (Nº1)
Title: Karagoto of The Chojiya
Head and bust portrait of the beautiful courtesan Karagoto, of the Chojiya House, who appears looking to her left while drying her right ear with the sleeve of her yukata (a fine summer garment, normally made of cotton that was normally used after bathing). The wide sleeve falls from her ear covering her right breast and leaving the left one uncovered.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The fickle type, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-ga Series XXII (Nº 22)
Title: THE FLICKLE TYPE
Upper half of the body of a woman in yukata (summer kymono) with part of her chest bare. Depicted just after a bath, she is turning her head and drying her hands with the towel hang on her shoulder. Her just-washed hair is tied around an ornate hairpin, the hair style called bai-mage (spiral-shell chignon).
The unkempt hair of the nape and the movement of the hands one on the other are clear examples of Utamaro's mastery, who had an exceptionally observant eye for women.
The Fickle ( or Fancy-free) Type is flirting with more than one member of the opposite sex
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ikiyo-e Figurative Painting, Obvious Love Arawaruru Koi, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
BIJIN-GA SERIES XVIII (Nº 18)
Title: Obvious Love (Arawaruru Koi)
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print Obvious Love (Arawaruru Koi) (1793-94); 38,8 x 26,2 cm.. Art Institute Chicago, USA.
A sensual woman seems to care little that her kimono is open, exposing a breast. Her hair is in disarray , the hairpin at the front about to fall and she holds one of the hairpins in her left hand. She appears to be looking down outside the frame of the picture, perhaps in mid-conversation. The term “arawaruru” refers to a love so wholehearted that it expresses itself in the lover´s face and mannerisms.
In the 1780's and 90's the publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo and the designer Kitagawa Utamaro worked together on the production of many woodblock prints, most of them of the bijin-ga type. One of their most popular productions was a set of images that purported to depict psychological classifications of women - 'fickle', 'interesting', etc.. Perhaps in response to this success, they then came up with something similar - a set of prints...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Crayon, Oil Crayon
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative painting, Reflective Love, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-Ga Series XII (Nº 12)
Title: Reflective Love.
Lovely portrait of a beauty looking over her shoulder.
In Reflective Love (from the Utamaro...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Domingo Alvarez Gómez (1942) - Marilyn Monroe - Dibujo a pastel
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado en la parte inferior por el artista
Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra
Medidas obra: 50 cm. de altura x 32,5 cm. de ancho
Buen estado de conservación el de la obra
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Category
Late 20th Century Realist Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Takashimayaoisha, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Beijing-ga Series XXX (nº 30)
Title: “Takashimaohisa”
Ohisa, along with Okita and Tomimoto Toyohina, were the three most famous beauties of the time. The first two were waitresses...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Paper, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Somenosuke of the Matsubaya Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXV (Nº 25)
Title: SOMENOSUKE OF THE MATSUBAYA
Somenosuke of house Matsubaya, known as a youthful courtesan who quickly rose through the ranks of popularity is shown producing a concealed letter, glancing about to confirm she is indeed alone.
The highlights of the drawing are the fine carving of the courtesan´s hair-line and the fine dress; an elegant kimono with vivid colors and intricate dessing.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Bijin Ôkubi, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXIX (Nº 29)
Title: Bijin Ôkubi
Upper torso portrait of a Japanese beauty, depicted with a graceful hand gesture and an ornate headdress. Her soft round features contrast with the colourful sharp angles of the collars of her kimono.
Her elongated oval face, straight nose and red butterfly lips are typical of the prototype of a beautiful woman, Bijin-ga. Her upper torso and face occupying the central section of the picture show a composition type that became known in time as Large-head pictures, or Okubi-e; compositions with which Utamaro became a model for generations of woodblock artists.
This image is part of the Bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, The courtese Hinakoto, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXI (Nº 21)
Title: The courtese Hinakoto of the Hyôgorô House of Edo
The courtesan Hinakoto is depicted by smoking tobacco. She takes the pipe delicately in her left hand and, in her right hand, she seems to be holding a “uchiwa” (rigid hand fan) that comes out from the bottom of the drawing, decorated with written calligraphy. Some strands of hair that fall on her temple and her scant clothing show that the painter has surprised her in a relaxed moment in which she does not lose her elegance and slenderness.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hitomoto of the Daimonjiya, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
“Hitomoto of The Daimonjiya in Kyô-Machi Itchôme”
Hitomoto holds a bouquet of flowers looking to her left, with a surprised face, and with her mouth aj...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Figurative Painting, Love for a street-walker, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
LOVE FOR A STREET-WALKER
Crayon, graphite, pencil on paper.
Measurements: (H) 76 x (W) 56 cm.
Attractive portrait of an Edo prostitute hurrying through the streets. She wears a black kimono over layers of colored kimono, tucking her hand into the "obi" at her waist. A white scarf is draped over her head, the edge caught between her teeth, and loose wisps of hair framed her face. There is an impressive contrast between the black kimono and the yellow-orange of collars, sleeves and "obi", balancing the composition the pastel pink of the scarf that covers her head.
This image is part of the "bijin-ga" series, Pretty Women, drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Love for a street-walker" (1795), 37,2 x 24,6 cm. The British Musem. London, UK.
The artist reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and from the original publisher ("Tsutaya", climbing leaf)), between the two, the signature of Mario BGil written in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the "bijing-ga" series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the family business, away from commercial art galleries. In 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him and he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Pencil, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Miyahito of The Ôgiya, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga Series XXXIV (Nº 34)
Title: Miyahito of the Ôgiya
Three quarter portrait of the elegant courtesan Miyahito of the Ôgiya House. This beautifully dressed japanese woman wears a solid grey outer robe, which contrasts with her soft rose kimono and the colored obi with an intricate geometric pattern. Her hair is arranged high atop her head, adorned with several hairpins. A classic Utamaro beauty print recreated with extraordinary taste and subtlety by Mario BGil in this delicate drawing.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Hairdresser, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series II (nº 02)
Title: “Hairdresser”
The interest in this picture is focused on the hairstyles of both women, a hairdresser leaning forward with a bow of intense black color, arranging his client's especially long hair. The ways of gripping both the hair and the comb, making it slide through the ocher-scented kimono of the customer, decorated with sea stars, stand out. Highlighting with great detail the drawing of loose hair on the obi of white lines on a red background, and the kosode of plum color.
This image is part of the Bijin-ga Series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print "Hairdresser" (1798-1799), 39,8 x 26,8 cm. Museum of Fine Arts. Boston-USA.
Utamaro drawn a series of twelve prints whose themes were related to the manual works of women, and this "Hairdresser" is one of them.
Mario BGil reproduces the seal of the censor (Kiwame) and writes his own signature, Mario BGil, in Japanese, with the date 14 (2014).
The mesaurements of the drawing are 76 x 56 cm. (29,92 x 22,05 in.), with a painted surface of 67 x 49,5 cm.
With his work on the bijing-ga series, Mario BGil wanted to embellish, give brilliance and volume to the images presented by japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro in those beautiful engravings, ennobled with the patina of time, which have served as inspiration. The result obtained is almost life-size portraits, endowed with strong chromaticism and valuable contrasts, all enhanced, in turn, with the volume provided by the weight and rigidity of the paper, and its thick texture (Fabriano Artistico “grana grosso”, 640g/m2; the thickness and hardness of the paper makes it necessary to transport it without rolling).
In this way, Mario BGil pays tribute to his admired artist and offers us a new and enriched vision of this popular facet of oriental art from the 18th and 19th centuries.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mario BGil is a self-taught artist who for years has combined his creative activity with his work in the business world, away from commercial art galleries. Man of very diverse interests and great artistic sensitivity, studied Art History and in 2012, a deep interest in oriental art was awakened in him so that he began to study the great masters of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, who had such an influence on the European avant-garde of the late 19th century.
The discovery of Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), a key figure in the metropolitan culture of Edo (now Tokyo), and a point of reference in the history of Japanese engraving...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Tatsumi Roko, Edo Period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijin-ga series XXVIII (Nº 28)
Title: Tatsumi Roko
Portrait of Tatsumi Roko, a geisha of the pleasure quarters in the Edo period. The image belongs to the series Renowed Beauties Likened to the Six Inmortal Poets.
The popular top-class geishas of the day , known as “oiran”, were depicted in this type of print. In ukiyo-e woodblock prints, this close-up portrait view of the upper body is known as an okubi-e (bust portrait).
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
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2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
Japanese Art Ukiyo-e Figurative Painting, Tomimoto Toyohina, Edo period
Located in Segovia, ES
Bijing-Ga series XXVII (Nº 27)
Title: Tomomoto Toyohina
Tomimoto Toyohina was a much sought-after geisha (entertainer) who performed narrative ballads accompanied by the shamisen. She was one of several non-prostitute beauties, including teahouse waitresses, whom Utamaro depicted repeatedly in the early to mid 1790s. She appears here with a brush in hand, dressed and combed with simple elegance.
This composition is from a six-print series comprising half-length portraits of famous beauties (Famous beauties of Edo).
Utamaro elevated Tomimoto Toyohina to the status of one of the three most renowned beauties of her age (together with Okita and Ohisa). She was from a prominent family of musicians that provided entertainment in the Yoshiwara. Toyohina’s appeal undoubtedly was as much due to her appearance as to her skills in singing, and Utamaro’s celebration of her would have further elevated the status of an already well-known lineage.
This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...
Category
2010s Edo Spain - Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon, Oil Crayon, Graphite
