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 ...

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 ...

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

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: Merchant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...