START WITH ART: Triptych Print

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Title: Triptych print

Print Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Date: 1844 

Medium: 37 x 25 cm

Dimensions: Color woodblock print, triptych

Start with Art Questions: 

• How do the artist’s detailed lines and colors help make the scene feel full of action and intensity, like a story unfolding on the page?

• What do you notice about the way the characters are positioned across the three panels? How does the wide format help make the scene feel bigger and more dramatic? 

• If you could add a sound to this print, like the clash of swords or shouts from the battle, what sound would you choose, and how would it add to the story Kuniyoshi is telling?