Treasury of Japanese Designs and Motifs for Artists and Craftsmen

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TREASURY OF
JAPANESE
DESIGNS & MOTIFS
FOR ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN
CAROL BELANGER GRAFTON
A profound sense of the aesthetic beauty in all things pervades the whole of
Japanese culture, finding perhaps its clearest expression in the decorative, applied
and pictorial arts. Characterized by a mastery of line and composition, and noted
for lyrical scenes of exquisite beauty, the genius of Japanese art has bequeathed to
the world a remarkable and distinctive design legacy.
This exceptionally versatile collection of traditional Japanese designs and motifs
presents the working artist with a treasury of 360 copyright-free designs. All have
been especially adapted by noted artist Carol Belanger Grafton for ready use by
illustrators, designers and craftspeople. Painstaking effort has been made to
preserve the original spirit and subtlety of detail while simultaneously sharpening
the lines and enhancing the reproducibility of the designs and motifs.
There are several lovely... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TREASURY OF
JAPANESE
DESIGNS & MOTIFS
FOR ARTISTS & CRAFTSMEN
CAROL BELANGER GRAFTON
A profound sense of the aesthetic beauty in all things pervades the whole of
Japanese culture, finding perhaps its clearest expression in the decorative, applied
and pictorial arts. Characterized by a mastery of line and composition, and noted
for lyrical scenes of exquisite beauty, the genius of Japanese art has bequeathed to
the world a remarkable and distinctive design legacy.
This exceptionally versatile collection of traditional Japanese designs and motifs
presents the working artist with a treasury of 360 copyright-free designs. All have
been especially adapted by noted artist Carol Belanger Grafton for ready use by
illustrators, designers and craftspeople. Painstaking effort has been made to
preserve the original spirit and subtlety of detail while simultaneously sharpening
the lines and enhancing the reproducibility of the designs and motifs.
There are several lovely ceramic and textile patterns. However, most of the design
motifs in this compendium were taken from woodblock prints. This particular
medium was invented in China and introduced to Japan before 1000 A.D.,
flourishing thereafter and reaching its zenith in the Ukiyo-e ("floating world")
school of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Accompanying these depictions of
people in traditional garb, and accessories such as fans, keys, kites and umbrellas,
are many charmingly decorative family crests arranged in mostly circular config-
urations. Also included are full-page compositions of bold geometric design,
vignettes of ethereal delicacy, as well as a generous sampling of nature's bounty:
cherries, radishes, plum blossoms, lions, elephants, dogs, cranes, parrots, turtles,
butterflies, even demons and dragons and much more —often in several arrange-
ments, many with reversed images.
Artists, designers, illustrators, students and teachers will find this indispensable
collection of 360 traditional Japanese designs and motifs rendered in clean, crisp
black-and-white, copyright-free illustrations to be a remarkably fertile source of
illustrative inspiration and design solutions.
Original Dover (1983) publication. Publisher's Note. 360 black-and-white illus-
trations. 96pp. 8lA x 11. Paperbound.
Free Dover Pictorial Archive Catalog (59062-3) available upon request. Vissza