A Comparative Study Of Chinese Ming And Qing Dynasty Woodcuts And Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints

16,17 century is a magical and brilliant years.The European eruption of the Renaissance ended the long medieval.At the other direction of the world-Northeast Asia,both China and Japan,the social commodity economy was highly developed,and the secular culture has sprung up.In this context,the national art of he two countries both blossomed and yielded fruit.They werecomparable,but also inextricably linked.The flowers of these two art are the woodcut paintings of the Ming and Qing dynastiesand the Japanese Ukiyoe.Without a doubt,Ukiyoe grew up in the nourishment of the woodcut paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties.There wasundisputed that the influence of Ukiyoe for the world's art in the 20 th century was not its foreign maternal-the woodcut paintings of the Ming and Qing dynasties can be compared.Through the comparison,these two forms of art is too similar.In the two countries,the publishers assembled painter,carved,stretching workers to complete the commodity arts and crafts hat they can be profitable.They belong to the civilian art.As a result of such assembly and sale,in the two countries have formed a number of well-known printing center.China is mainly concentrated in Anhui Province and Zhejiang Province,while Japan is mainly concentrated in the city of Edo Castle.Both the production techniques are more similar,are mostly watermark woodcut.Only in the form of Ukiyoe,compared with the Ming and Qing Dynasties woodcut,break through the booklet illustrations style,developed a more independent appreciation of the value of the unique prints.The development of the subject matter is also coincidental.reach the peak periodthe of artistic form in the maturation stage of the figure painting,in the recession both draw landscape birds as the end of the painting.In this regard,their biggest difference is the Ming and Qing Dynasties woodcut figures figure painting focuspeople in the environment,and Ukiyoe painting to describe the characters themselves as the focus.Ming and Qing Dynasties woodcut paintings own elegant colour,simple style.Ukiyoe painted color is strong but want to say that still is implicit.Both art forms are very viable.But the Ukiyoe has the vitality of the infinite rise of the dynamic,the limits of the breakthrough led to the vitality of the force is unusually strong.Conversely,the Ming and Qing Dynasties wood paintingswere presented by a stable and peaceful,calm and full of praise for the life of temperament.Ukiyoe in the 20 th century made great success.In addition to its own factors,the great key lies in the Japanese multicultural values.To make the Ming and Qing Dynasties wood paintings to renew in the present,To study the active trajectoryofUkiyoe in the two centuries is necessary.