ウォルターは浮世絵の影響も受け、影の付け方も、線ではなく、浮世絵のように黒一色で表したりしています。ある絵本の中にも、浮世絵が描かれていました。 見るだけでも大変な量の作品が掲示されており、最後は駆け足のようになりましたが、内容は十分満足しました。 ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー Last Sunday, I saw "Walter Crane's book creation exhibition" at Chiba city museum of art. Mr.Walter Crane is very famous English man who was artist and book illustrator in
alphabet textbook for children to colored beautiful books of fairy tails, for example, "Beauty and beast", ”Cinderella", ”Puss in boots" etc, and added that beautiful pictures flowers personalized.
I did not know some stories about the fairy tails that I learned in this exhibition. For example, "Bluebeard". A lady got married with ill-famed blue-beard man. When he left a house for his business trip, he passed some keys for all rooms, he made her promise not to open one small room. She fired by curiosity and opened the room her husband banned to open. Then she got a shock to find his ex wife's dead body was hidden there. After his back home, he found her open the room secretly. He got anger and tried to kill his wife. What would happen her !
Mr.Walter was influenced by Japanese UKIYO-E or Japanese woodblock prints made in Edo era. When he drew dark side in his book, he not drew many lines but blackened the area simply like UKIYO-E way. And I could see UKIYO-E in his books. I enjoyed a lot to see many his original works though time was not enough.
↑「ウォルタークレインの本の仕事」展。/"Walter Crane's book creation exhibition"
↑美女。/ "A beauty"
↑ 野獣はまるでイノシシみたい。/" A beast". he is like a wild boar.
↑ 千葉市美術館 / Chiba city museum of art.
↑ 旧川崎銀行千葉支店の建物の中に美術館がある。/ The museum is in the building of former KAWASAKI BANK CHIBA BRANCH.