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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 ...
Making Japanese woodblock prints usually involves a team of people: The artist, who creates the design in black ink, on a very thin sheet of washi, traditional Japanese paper; ...
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 ...
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).
Appraisal: Kawase Hasui Japanese Woodblock Prints, ca. 1922 In Junk in the Trunk 14, Lark Mason III appraises Kawase Hasui Japanese woodblock prints, ca. 1922. Aired 10/03/2024 | Rating TV-G ...
Selected from the Portland Art Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition “Human|Nature: 150 Years of Japanese Prints” explores Japan’s journey with and through nature during the 19th ...
Asia Society members are invited to an exclusive-access reception in celebration of the exhibition Yōkai: Scenes of the Supernatural in Japanese Woodblock Prints.The event includes a docent-led tour ...
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.
Events Gaze at “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” at the MFA “Tattoos in Japanese Prints” features nearly 80 works by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a great ukiyo-e master, and his contemporaries.