Japanese Art flourished during the Renaissance time period. Between 1580-1640, Japanese society went through rapid urbanization (Little Art Talks). Rapid urbanization was partly meant how much art was expanding. The Azuchi-Momoyama period of art lasted from 1573-1650 and was very rewarding for the artist (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
During this time period, it was beneficial for the artist, as they explored their styles and techniques, creating different styles of paintings with different meanings and showing events happening during the time (Little Art Talks), There was schools to help artist practice their skills and to succeed in filling the demand for decorative paintings. The time period of Azuchi-Momoyama was during the time period of the Renaissance. The Renaissance” took place in Europe and was the main focus of the 1400s-1700s but Japan 1500-1650s was about the same amount of awarding for the artist in these places (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
The Japanese introduced new styles of painting and different techniques (Edward). Japanese artist used versatile colors to contrast colors to make a brilliant panorama of colors,which was the starting of mixing colors to create a different style than most paintings (Edwards), The basic element of painting to most Japanese artist was deft brushwork,artist used with deft brushwork was used to give the painting a certain look and to create more character out of the artwork (Edward).
To make paintings more decorative and elegant, which was a demanded style by many of the sponsors that supported the Kano art school, used to merge ink and also strong brushwork, because brushwork was key to a good painting (“Metropolitan Museum of Art”). The style of Kano Montonobu had a plastic look and was more decorative than most ink paintings during the time (The Little Little Art Talks). When Kano began using more than just ink it started something ( The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
The trend of Kano using more than just ink created an even bigger trend that was copied and perfected by others (The Metropolitan Museum of Arts). The Kano art school lived longer than any other art school in Japanese history and resulted in excellent things (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Kano Montonobu was the father of the art school (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The Kano art school started with Kano Montononu and went through three generations of sons before it was over (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
The Kano Art school was an art school that lasted 300 years and started in the late 1500’s and ending 300 years later but accomplishing many things (Little Art Talks). The school was very successful in attracting people to support the school so that they’d develop different styles of art (The Asian Art Museum). The Kano art school had many professional painters and while taking their classes, they were able to practice painting and master new styles of painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Kano Montonobu had his specific style of artwork and taught others how to develop their own unique style (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). There were other art schools during the time, but none as effective as the Kano art school, which is likely why it is the longest lasting school of art in Japanese History (Metropolitan Museum of Art). Japanese artist used their paintings to tell stories of things happening and battles taking place during the 1500’s-1650s.
Such as Filial Piety, a painting it shows a young man named Tung Yung, who sold himself into bondage to get the money to bury his father (Edward). The painting was made in 1513 and represents how things were living in the 1500’s at this time it shows the struggles of a man who has to endure a hardship just to get the money so that his father can be buried (Edward). The Summer Battle of Osaka Castle was a painting of a battle in 1514-1515.
Instead of writing about battles and conflict happening the Japanese artist began to capture moments like this battle happening in the summer of Osaka Castle in history in paintings rather than using words to express what’s going on which is what art that tells story shows (Little Art Talks). Womanly Virtues was a painting that showed many women of the 1500’s in Japan and the way they style their hair and the way they dressed represented the time period that the painting was painted in and many other artist used the technique of making the art “modern day” in the 1500’s (Edward).
The women in the painting represented grace and elegance (Edward). Just by the way their features were and how their hair flowed they showed womanly virtues in the painting womanly virtues. The summer battle of Osaka has an unknown artist (Edward). The Japanese art portraying the scenes of Japanese life and battles also had some Japanese history and an example of life in the 1500’s all tied into one painting (Edward). In the 1500’s there was a great demand for decorative Japanese paintings (Little Art Talks).
The most popular style of paintings on deck demand were the elegant and decorative styled paintings (Edward). The Art was one factor that made such rapid urbanization in Japanese society,(Little Art Talks)People would pay a lot of money to the Kano art school to keep it going so that artist there would paint things for them with an elegant style, For the amount of time,money, and effort put into creating paintings and developing new styles you can see a boom in the creation of the Arts begin.
The reason Japanese art and the Renaissance flourishing at the same time is important is because in Europe big things were happening and that is what is focused on more than other places in the world such as Japan and Japanese Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Europe was creating artwork as well and working on different styles of art, but Japanese artist were strategic and accomplished many things while practicing art (Little Art Talks).
Most artist staid unknown unless they were famous during the time (Asian Art Museum). Kano Monotonbo was very successful with his school and his artistic skills (Metropolitan Museum of Art). He helped other artists test their skills to get better (Little Art talks). All though Kano Montonono had an excellent technique and knew how to make Kano Monotono’s paintings decorative and beautiful paintings anc could sell them for a lot instead he did something wonderful (Little Art Talks).
Kano Monotonobu sold his paintings for a lot of money, but also for others who didn’t have as much money trying to buy art he also made it available for all price ranged people not just rich people (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) During this time period the craze for art rapidly grew and they made schools just to teach ways to develop different skills for art (Little Art Talks). During this time period things flourished a lot for the Japanese (Little Art Talks). Their battles and history began to be documented by the paintings rather than paragraphs describing what happened they could just look at a picture of it (Edward).
They invested money into having art schools and teaching artists how to expand their horizons of their painting skills (Little Art Talks). Japanese began appreciating the art and having requested of decorative styles for their own homes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The craving for art made it so important and helped painters accomplish things during art school thanks to sponsors who wanted new art and different styles of it (Little Art Talks). Art in the 1500s-1650s seemed to be just a start of urbanization for Japan.
