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I am looking for impressionist cityscapes in various ways to decorate my house. I prefer to hang art that was created in the last fifteen years. There are great artists so choose.

I decided that I want to have three impressionist cityscapes painted acrylic. I'll buy one called Stormy Desert that was painted by an artist named JoanAnn. The room is painted in a 40 "x 30" canvas a flowering cactus in the foreground.

The urban landscape painting impressionist Next I plan to buy is called Tuscan Waterfall. The work is a triptych and is on three gallery wrapped canvases. The artist lives in Tennessee and supports herself with her art.

The last urban landscape impressionist acrylic that plans to buy is called Autumn Dream. Autumn is my favorite time of year and the paint to capture all the colors of autumn. The artist has painted the walls, it is not necessary to have it framed. I can not wait to see this hanging in my house.

I found only two impressionist cityscapes that I liked in the Gouache East. The first was an artist named Joe Wojdakowski and the subject is an area located in Wells, Maine. No I do not know why I'm attracted to this particular impressionist landscape, but I am and plan to buy.

Another Gouache impressionist landscape it plans to buy features Big Ben in London. The artist is an Englishman named Alasdair Rennie. The scene is rainy and I really like. It reminds me of my time in London when he was a child.

The first oil painting impressionist cityscape that I bought was called Koi Pond Reflections. I have seen this artist's work before and I always like much. The work was completed using brush and knife. The painting has not arrived yet because the painting is very thick and must complete the drying process undisturbed. I can not wait to get it!

I like having different styles of the horizon Impressionist painting. I just like variety in the media, I like variety in styles and influences. I really fell in love with a painting Oil landscape impressionist named trail that was originally purchased in Oaxaca, Mexico. I bought the table a little more than three thousand dollars.

The impressionist oil painting cityscape of Paris I have been painted by an artist well known Radik Atoyan. It is Armenian and signed the painting in his Armenian language. It has a unique use of color is simply look at his special paint.

I was also interested in the urban landscape watercolor impressionist paintings. There is an original painting depicting a rainy night city I think that would be perfect for me. The painting makes me feel good to the study.

I made a purchase not long ago, was painted by Israeli artist Kosssonogi named Yosef. The use of color in this watercolor impressionist Urban landscape is so intense. I could not wait to hang on the wall. After sending arrived with the painting, my brother came immediately with a block level.

I found a photo that reminded me of my holiday taken in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The impressionist cityscape painting was created by Adam Maeroff and I think the paint is perfect to complete my collection.

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Shunga, literally, "Images of Spring" is the term used to describe erotic prints, books, manuscripts and paintings Japan.

Prudery

Only recently (1990) study of the images that represent gay shunga (sex between men) and lesbian (female-female) acts of love are started. This research late this domain "hidden" was caused by official censorship in Japan and also because of the concern and prudery on the specific object in the past.

Male-male

Homosexuality in Japanese male love called nansoku meaning ', was not an uncommon phenomenon during the Edo (now Tokyo), a period in Japan. In the early years of the Tokugawa regime (early 17th century) much more men outnumber women in Edo. There are strict rules imposed by the government based on fair rules of Confucianism, which excluded women to participate in any job with the exception of household tasks. These regulations and the scarcity of women can be seen as decisive factors for the large amount of homosexual activities. The most characteristic feature of the representations in shunga of sex between men is the relationship between the two involved "lovers". The male and dominant leader, with his shaved head is always the biggest, is on the basis of seniority or higher social status, while the passive subject was a preteen or pubescent or young represented a strand of hair without shaving. These young people are often in women's clothing and therefore easily confused with the girls. He served as pages of high-ranking samurai, monks, merchants and rich or more agents were the most desired during adolesence especially among children under 15 years and 17 years when the year was still hairless. There are also several shunga designs on the topic of sex trio that depicts a man (always a young man), in through sex with a female partner, while being taken from behind by an intruder. The pictures represent most of the shunga man / young anal sex, genitals of the young, often hidden from the viewer's attention focused on the garment and elegant lines of the body.

Secrets Women

While not a Japanese term for male-male (nanshoku) and sex between women, joshoku or nyoshoku which means "female love", no word to describe how a woman's sex or lesbianism. Most shunga's I've found a distributor in the last 15 years regarding the design focuses explicitly female (about 20!) Or masturbate women represent isolated using fingers or a harigata (artificial phallus / dildo) or two women's intimate sexual devices use this same. Hokusai (1760-1849), the most famous of Ukiyo-e designed two lesbian teacher Ehon (book) prints one of which with two Awabi (abalone) divers using a sea cucumber. So far the only with this shunga issue that has been described in the literature is famous design Eiri in Oban size series models' of calligraphy "(Fumi kiyogaki not) published in 1801. In his book 'Shunga, the art of love in Japan "(1975) Tom and Mary Evans make an interesting comparison with Eiri's (I attribute to Eisha) shunga design and paintings of the influential post-Impressionist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:

"Considering that Toulouse-Lautrec focused on the emotional bond between the girls and the sad emptiness of the lifestyle they push each other's arms, Eisha (Eiri) deals with the physical details of their relationship. And while even open-minded artists like Lautrec considered that these data were more that could be presented to the public, to the Japanese were the central feature of design. "(Evans - 'Shunga, the art of love in Japan")

It should be noted that these images of lesbianism in shunga were the result of male fantasies, designed by men and aimed at a male audience.

Deep View

Despite the shame the Japanese at first felt for the representation of these gender issues within the deleted shunga is exactly these particular images that provide a blueprint deep cultural and historical background of their country during the Edo period.

Recommended Literature

'Shunga, the art of love in Japan " (1975) - Tom and Mary Evans Sex and the Floating World "(1999) - Japanese Timon Screech 'Erotic Prints' (2002) - Inge Klompmakers' Japanese Erotic Fantasies "(2005) - C. Uhlenbeck and M. Winkel

Important Shunga Artists

Hishikawa Moronobu (? -1694) Suzuki Harunobu (c.1725-1770) Isoda Koryusai (1735-90) Chokyosai Eiri (act. c.1789-1801) Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 -1806) Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815) Katsukawa Shuncho (Act. c.1780s-early 1800s) by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) Yanagawa Shigenobu (1787-1833) Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) Kikugawa Eizan (1787-1867) Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865) Kyōsai Kawanabe (1831-89)

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