Hiroshige

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• Hiroshige
• Japanese Artist 18th Century
• Used Foreground, Background and Middle ground
  areas really well

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• This is a detail of one of his paintings called
  The Plum Grove
• Look at the use of
• 1) Complimentary colours,
• 2) Overlapping, 3)Perspective and
• 4) Aerial perspective

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• The sky is much darker at the top and lighter as
  it reaches the horizon.
• This gives the whole picture a sense of space
  and distance.
• The Dutch Artist, Vincent Van Gogh liked this
  work so much that he copied it in his own style

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• Van Goghs version

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Look at the use of overlapping here Brilliant!
Its as though we are looking through the flowers
onto the scene in the background, and look at how
simply , but how effectively he has conveyed the
colours in the landscape, about 9 horizontal
stripes across the whole surface, with the detail
on top
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• Hes looking through a wheel with this one

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• A contemporary (around at the same time) artist
  called Hokusai used a very similar style and was
  just as inventive when composing pictures. Here
  are some of his 36 views of Mount Fuji

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