Woodcuts of nature visually float

WICHITA, KS (PNAN) – Opening on Thursday, January 26, 2023, “Nature in the Floating World: Images of Nature in Japanese and Chinese Art” goes on view at the Ulrich Museum of Art through May 6, 2023. The exhibit focuses on images of nature, an interpreted theme in Japanese woodcuts, Ukiyo-e, which means “pictures of the floating world” which flourished from the 17^th to 19^th centuries.

Nearly forty works are drawn from the museum’s collection, including from the Mark Arts Study Collection and a local private lender. The works going on view as well as two large-scale works by contemporary Chinese artists, Huang Yan and Liu Guosong, capture great inventiveness and beauty in approaches to depicting the natural world and reveal its deep interconnectedness with human life.

Also in the collection of Japanese woodcut prints to be on display, they include pieces by such internationally influential 19th century masters of ukiyo-e as, Andō Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai, as well as a variety of works by participants in the 20th century shin-hanga and sōsaku-hanga movements to revive and revitalize woodcut printing.

     For information on other programming, including “Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Boat People” also opening on January 26, 2023, Vietnamese artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen who visualizes a depopulated post-apocalyptic world. A group of five children sail the seas and try to understand their ancestors’ past through the traces of material culture they find. In the process, they also make viewers consider afresh the evidence of war, migration, suffering, and survival that we are leaving behind us, go to https://ulrich.wichita.edu