The beautiful Japanese woodblock prints created by artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige inspired similar works across the world and most famously the paintings of Van Gogh.
Shin-hanga is a 20th-century take on ukiyo-e, an older form of Japanese woodblock printing, that evolved as artists sought to modernize and widen the appeal of their craft. Bill Fernandez ...
Today, Hokusai is a world-famous artist who continues to motivate ... A final burst of activity in designing 'surimono' (a genre of Japanese woodblock prints) followed in the early 1820s, but then ...
At the same time, his stylized and deceptively simple compositions bring to mind Japanese woodblock artists such as Hiroshig. Hansen has exhibited in galleries around the United States and his work is ...
a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique, had been a cornerstone of Japanese art for centuries. “This exhibition not only showcases the beauty and elegance of Moku-Hanga but also ...
Japan has had a long history of woodblock printmaking ... that way from any kind of art before.” May thinks this exhibit is ‘a special occasion’ because the Carnegie Museum has a “really famous” ...
and political contexts of Toshi Yoshida’s woodblock print, Kami no Mori (“Sacred Grove”), 1941, and argue that it is best understood and appreciated from the perspective of romantic nationalism.