Part of the appeal of the 19th-century woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e (“floating world pictures”) is that their subject ...

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 ...

The prints were snatched away before the ink on them was dry, and were sold all over the city. Publishers did anything and everything to get ahead of others.

For centuries, fishermen in Japan have been creating ink prints of fish and sea species in a practice known as Gyotaku (魚拓) or “fish rubbing” in English. Originally used to record catches ...

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 ...

Sosaku-hanga—creative prints (創作版画)—emerged as an artistic form of expression in twentieth-century Japan. This installation was co-curated for "Art & Resolution, 1900 to Today" by students from Art ...

The major difference between this and other exhibitions of Japanese moku hanga (woodblock printing) is that the prints were all made as pattern and design books for the Japanese textile market.

Sumi-e, the art of Japanese ink painting, is equal parts beauty and discipline. David Lee Roth, artist. CBS News "You're a night owl – you usually paint and draw at night?" ...

Of all the visual art the West associates with ancient Japan, woodprints are probably the most well known. You may not have ever heard the term ukiyo-e before, or know how a Japanese woodprint is ...

Select prints will be on view as part of this summer’s “Van Gogh and Nature” exhibition. The Clark Art Institute, 225 South St., Williamstown, Massachusetts; clarkart.edu ...

If you go "Along the Eastern Road: Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido" Where: Albany Institute of History & Art, 125 Washington Ave., Albany, NY When: Through June 10 Hours: 10 a.m to ...