Fuji no Yukei by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi Renoir's 'Bal du Moulin de

Renoir's 'Bal du Moulin de la Galette' is one of the defining images of French Impressionism — a sun-soaked afternoon in Montmartre where Parisians dance

his application of colour restrained to the point of austerity

There is more tension in Nr 3 than in its predecessors

every tonal boundary clean

Fuji no Yukei by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Utagawa Kuniyoshi Renoir's 'Bal du Moulin deFuji no Yukei Evening View of Fuji places Kuniyoshi's compositional energy in an unusually contemplative mode. The mountain rises into a sky that moves through gradations of dusk colour, while the foreground establishes the traveller's viewpoint with the precise visual economy characteristic of ukiyo e landscape. Where Kuniyoshi's warrior prints use dynamic diagonals to generate tension, this work builds its effect through stillness: the great cone