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SPRING PICTURES / Bundle of 14 / Fine art prints

€75.00

SPRING PICTURES. 
BUNDLE OF 14 fine art prints.
Packed in a gift box.
Size of fine art print: 10,5 x 15 cm. 

© 2021 TYPOART. © Illustration: Gediminas Leonavičius / concept & design: Jūratė Rutkauskaitė. All rights reserved. Created and produced by TYPOART. www.typoart.world

Fine art print is digitally printed on archival quality heavy weight paper with vivid color and exceptional details – an affordable alternative to original art. Signed by author.

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Shunga, literally “spring pictures”, is an erotic artistic tradition that emerged from early modern Japan, featuring graphic images of sexual activity. Produced by the thousands during the Edo period (1600-1868), shunga offered sexuality a shameless visual platform, where sexual pleasure, female sexuality, and homosexuality were not only acknowledged but encouraged.

Why was shunga created? Shunga had functions beyond its aesthetic appeal. Its primary use would have involved viewing and sharing the paintings or books with close friends or sexual partners. The images were also used to provide sexual education for young couples, to encourage a warrior going into battle and even to protect homes. While shunga was chiefly commissioned and painted by men, it has been found among the material goods presented to a Japanese bride, suggesting that it was also highly valued by women.

What is shunga’s significance? Considering Europe at the time, where shunga would have been deemed pornographic, as well as Christianity and Islam’s denunciations of sex, shunga is an impressive, unique tradition of pre-modern erotic art. Shunga serves as testament to an uninhibited, open-minded society and offered artists with opportunities to express originality and unbridled emotion. Current estimates indicate an astounding quantity of shunga that was produced; some 2000 publications were created, each with hundreds or thousands of copies.

Shunga had a great influence on Western European artists Paul Gauguin, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Picasso. Gediminas Leonavičius’ erotic drawings are created with a moderate sense of humor.

THE BED

€42.00

THE BED. 
Artist © Gediminas Leonavičius. 
Variants: etching, fine art print.

Technic of original artwork – etching, e.d.a. 50 (limited edition of 50). Dimensions: 5 x 10 cm. Created in 1997. Printed and signed by author. © 2019 Gediminas Leonavičius. 

Fine art print (reproduction): 5 x 10 cm. Fine art print is digitally printed on archival quality heavy weight paper with vivid color and exceptional details – an affordable alternative to original art. Signed by author. Fine art print © 2019 TYPOART. www.typoart.world

A postcard is available: 
https://typoart.world/collections/postcards

DANAYA

€42.00

DANAYA. 
Artist © Gediminas Leonavičius. 
Variant: fine art print.

Technic of original artwork – etching, e.d.a. 50 (limited edition of 50). Dimensions: 10 x 16 cm. Created in 1996. Printed and signed by author. © 2019 Gediminas Leonavičius.

Fine art print (reproduction): 10 x 16 cm. Fine art print is digitally printed on archival quality heavy weight paper with vivid color and exceptional details – an affordable alternative to original art. Signed by author. Fine art print © 2019 TYPOART. 
www.typoart.world

Shipping worldwide. Orders are expected to arrive within 7-15 business days, depending on delivery point.

A postcard is available: 
https://typoart.world/collections/postcards

Danaus did not want his daughters to go ahead with the marriages and he fled with them in the first boat to Argos, which is located in Greece near the ancient city of Mycenae. Danaus agreed to the marriage of his daughters only after Aegyptus came to Argos with his fifty sons in order to protect the local population, the Argives, from any battles. The daughters were ordered by their father to kill their husbands on the first night of their weddings and this they all did with the exception of one, Hypermnestra, who spared her husband Lynceus because he respected her desire to remain a virgin. Danaus was angered that his daughter refused to do as he ordered and took her to the Argives courts. Lynceus killed Danaus as revenge for the death of his brothers and he and Hypermnestra started the Danaid Dynasty of rulers in Argos.
The other forty-nine daughters remarried by choosing their mates in footraces. Some accounts tell that their punishment was in Tartarus being forced to carry a jug to fill a bathtub (pithos) without a bottom (or with a leak) to wash their sins off. Because the water was always leaking they would forever try to fill the tub. Probably this myth is connected with a ceremony having to do with the worship of waters, and the Danaides were water-nymphs. The rivers at Argolis were empty during summer and they overflowed during winter, therefore the name Danaus and Danaides is probably connected with the Proto-Indo-European root *danu:"river"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_Danaus

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DICE GAME

€75.00

DICE GAME.  
Artist © 2021 Gediminas Leonavičius. 
Dimensions: 23 x 29 cm. Created in 1996.

Variants: original art, fine art print.

Technic of original artwork – etching, e.d.a. 50 (limited edition of 50). Printed and signed by author.

Fine art print (reproduction): 23 x 29 cm. Fine art print is digitally printed on archival quality heavy weight paper with vivid color and exceptional details – an affordable alternative to original art. Signed by author.
© 2021 TYPOART.
www.typoart.world