In the 1820s, the ink of the woodblock prints and that of tattoos on skin began to influence one another. They shared the popular imagery of dragons, demons and monsters, as well as allusions to ...

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 ...

Gyotaku prints, made by pressing a fish covered in ink on paper, have been a credible research tool to examine marine biodiversity. by Hakim Bishara March 4, 2020 Subscribe to our newsletter ...

JAPANESE ART AT UMFA. Two exhibitions of Japanese art: “Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints,” organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and “Beyond the Divide ...

Fish out of water don’t last long. But prints of their dazzling scales, pressed into pools of ink, can preserve the aquatic creatures’ forms for centuries. Since the mid-19th century, Japanese ...

Van Gogh considered Japanese prints a model of pure artistic expression, uncorrupted by Western modes of representation: “Japanese art is something like the primitives, like the Greeks, like our ...

THE penalty I pay for being a teacher in Oriental art is that I am constantly called upon to pass judgment on Japanese prints. Collector after collector batters at my door, demanding that I give ...

Charleston artist Liz Roberts uses real fish to create colorful one-of-a-kind prints. Known as Fish Print Girl, Roberts puts ...

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 is a landmark exhibition of 140 masterworks of Japanese ukiyo-e, from commercially released prints of iconic images by ...

Rodbell developed a fascination with Japanese prints when she and her late husband lived in Japan, from 1969 to 1972. The Rodbell family collection spans nearly 150 years of Japanese wood-block ...

In the 1820s, the ink of the woodblock prints and that of tattoos on skin began to influence one another. They shared the popular imagery of dragons, demons and monsters, as well as allusions to ...