The portrayal of emotions and creation of mood and atmosphere in Japanese prints.
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Laura Adolphus The portrayal of emotions and creation of mood and atmosphere in Japanese prints. I chose Japanese prints as my topic to research as they appeal to me because of their simplistic and often basic principles and techniques that create a great deal of atmosphere and evoke emotions within the print and inside the viewer. The main focus of my research of Japanese prints is on the way in which atmosphere and mood is created within the prints I have chosen. I have focused primarily on these aspects as the main ambition of Japanese print artists was not to re-create the image they saw but to re-create the emotions it stirred within them. I have mainly focused on landscape prints as these appeal to me the most as the artists seem to create the most atmosphere and emotion with landscape images as opposed to prints that consist greatly of people. A...

