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APPRAISER: These are both original Japanese woodblock prints. It was likely around six or seven cherry woodblocks that were carved out by hand to make this print.
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.
The great Japanese woodblock prints by the artists Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige are so influential, and so beautiful, you never need any excuse to see them. "Japanese Impressions" at ...
The exhibition also has a Japanese streetscape scene set during the Samuri time with recreations of Hokusai’s home, a woodblock print shop, tea shop and market, Martinez said.
Part of that culture stretches back more than 200-years. The original Japanese woodblock prints, that Kitamura uses for many of his tattoos, created by one of Japan's master artists, Utagawa ...
In addition to the 100 original woodblock prints, another 50 works on display will include loans of samurai armor and arms and rarely seen works from the DAI Japanese collection, such as ...
Japanese publisher Hanzō is keeping the ukiyo-e tradition alive with unique reinterpretations of traditional woodblock prints that feature popular characters like Doraemon, Crayon Shinchan, and ...
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 ...
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, ...
Icons Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints A new exhibition at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum shows how a cheap, popular art form produced enduring masterpieces Maki Haku, ‘Fuji san-12’ (1989).