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Subjects of the prints range from Japanese gardens to Paris scenes like the Eiffel Tower to fish and flowers. For more information about Woodblock Prints from Postwar Japan, visit ringling.org.
“Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints” is the latest exhibition on display from April 1 to July 4 at Seattle Art Museum.
WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...
The dragons, demons and flowers tattooed on the characters depicted in “ukiyo-e” prints remain popular today.
Walt Disney has teamed up with a Japanese woodblock printing company to transform beloved Star Wars characters via this traditional Japanese craft.
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple relationships in the natural world, on Jan. 24. Curated by Eleanor Pschirrer-West, ...
During the Edo period in Japan (1615-1857), woodblock printing was a common and popular art form. The Japanese took the Buddhist idea of ukiyo, or "the floating world," and interpreted the notion of ...
Ahead of TEFAF Maastricht, Tamio Ikeda, of the Paris gallery Tanakaya, shares the complex history behind the woodblock print, and how mutual admiration may have saved it.
Put together by the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, it is derived from the estate of businessman John Chandler Bancroft, which donated 3,700 Japanese woodblock prints to the museum in 1901.
Though he was born and raised in Paris, Jacoulet was drawn to the Japanese art form at a young age and honed his skills in traditional Japanese painting and ukiyo-e woodblock art, showing an ...