With Best Of Hiroshige, you’ll enjoy the most renowned works of Utagawa Hiroshige – anytime, anywhere. It’s like having your own private art gallery!
Best Of Hiroshige showcases 210 carefully selected, stunningly detailed full screen images in a beautiful interface especially designed for iPad and for iPhone.
Utagawa Hiroshige, also Andō Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes, such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō and for his depictions of birds and flowers. The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre, whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors, and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868). The popular Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series by Hokusai was a strong influence on Hiroshige’s choice of subject, though Hiroshige’s approach was more poetic and ambient than Hokusai’s bolder, more formal prints.
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Best Of Hiroshige features an easy-to-use, intuitive interface that lets you:
> Browse the thumbnail gallery or search by keyword to quickly find a desired work of art
> Quickly learn a work of art’s title, year, technique, size and current location
> Read the artist biography
> Create your own favorites selection
> Enjoy a slideshow with your selected music
> Share artwork and its description to Facebook, Twitter or by email to anyone, anywhere
> Save artwork to Photo Stream and AirDrop
> Order high quality prints directly from the app
All images are included in the app, which means that they load extremely fast and no internet connection is required to view them.
Best Of Hiroshige makes art book illustrations a thing of the past. It is the new way to learn and enjoy the art of the great Masters.
Quoted from Hiroshige:
“Invite Tranquility
The sea,—
Something to look at
When we are angry.”