Originally trained in oil painting, the young artist turned to woodblock printmaking. |
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This will be followed by a hands-on workshop where participants carve and print their own woodblock. |
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These artists had a nearly religious belief that the artist must do the complete process of creating a woodblock himself. |
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A speciality of Ma Li is the so-called woodblock reduction technique that he and other artists developed in Yunnan. |
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The origins of Japanese woodblock prints or ukiyo-e go back to the middle of the 17th century. |
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The art of woodblock printing in the Meiji period is marked by the industrialization and swift westernization which Japan underwent in this era. |
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In contrast, western woodblock processes typically use oil-based inks applied by a roller onto the block. |
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Shops selling Japanese woodblock prints, kimonos, fans and antiquities popped up in Paris like mushrooms. |
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Frightened is also a pretty picture, but the composition is a little complex, and we can almost hear the noise when the artist cut the woodblock. |
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With each copy printed from a woodblock, the impression quality worsened due to the wear of the block. |
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Hardly more than 2,000 impressions could be taken from a woodblock without a rather visible deterioration of quality. |
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Chinese artists and artisans came to Japan to learn traditional woodblock printmaking. |
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If you need a more detailed description of the making of a Japanese woodblock print, read the page about Japanese prints. |
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The coarse texture of the concrete is counterpoised to the silky surface of aluminium kitchen fittings and gleaming expanse of woodblock floor. |
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The charm of these prints is rather in the historical subjects than in the skill level of woodblock craftsmanship. |
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Her art background had given her an appreciation of Japanese woodblock prints. |
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Softer than the sound produced by a temple block, the woodblock is a harsh and gritty instrument. |
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He began tapping a tempo out on the woodblock and nodded his head to the tune. |
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For each print, the woodblock is coated with color by the help of an ink brush. |
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He had learned the Japanese woodblock technique, which he uses for most of his prints. |
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The woodblock printing technique came from China to Japan several hundred years ago. |
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In the 18th century, posters were woodblock engravings mainly announcing theatre productions. |
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In the 1980s, a new technique of woodblock printmaking appeared. |
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By the mid-15th century, printers combined woodblock illustrations with typeset text to create easily produced, illustrated printed books. |
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The illustrations, inspired by Chinese calligraphy, are given an airiness through the use of the Japanese method of woodblock printing. |
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By the 9th or 10th century, paged woodblock books replaced scrolls, and literary, historical, and herbal works were published. |
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Accessory mount for mounting a cowbell, woodblock or tambourine to a cymbal stand. |
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The printer will place a mixture of pigments, water and glue on the woodblock. |
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Tenpokura now has a tasting corner, and on the wall is an original print by the famous woodblock artist, Shiko Munakata. |
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In the winter session, drypoint will be introduced, along with a continuation of lino and woodblock printing. |
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Walls and roof insulated, double glazing, electricity up to current standards, plumbing and sanitary ware new, beautiful woodblock floors. |
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A very interesting site, it also proposes articles on the univers of woodblock prints. |
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The reception hall with mahogany woodblock floor leads to a gracious drawing room with windows on three sides overlooking the well-tended gardens. |
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Faced with the challenge of selecting a flooring solution that created the right ambience, reclaimed maple woodblock from a timber flooring specialist provided the solution. |
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Activities involving clapping, playing a woodblock, or tossing a beanbag work well with more upbeat tempi since the muscle movement takes a shorter time to complete. |
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The other plays a multiple percussion setup consisting of a seven-piece drumset supplemented by a woodblock, pedal-operated tambourine, triangle and slapstick. |
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From time to time, the unending song, gently driven on by two solo violins, is punctuated by the even rapping of a woodblock and the pretty chiming of a celesta. |
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The company specializes in handcrafted, original woodblock rubber stamps. |
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So you can find prints with subjects you normally would not expect on Japanese woodblock prints like Indian elephants or a mountain landscape in Alaska. |
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The area around Tochikubo, now known as Niigata, was one of the most populated parts of Japan because of the quality of its crop. At that time, Ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, were in fashion. |
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In most of Japan's folk art of the day including pulp fiction, puppet theatre, storytelling, kabuki, scroll painting and woodblock prints vengeful spirits were among the most popular motifs. |
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Ukiyo-e woodblock printing, which depicts the everyday life of common folk, fascinated French artists such as the Impressionists, Monet and Renoir. |
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In 1917 he collaborated with the Japanese artist Urushibara Mokuchu on a series of woodblock prints. |
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Although Kusinada is primarily known for his portraits of actors, he also painted a number of portraits of female beauties, a classic theme in Japanese woodblock printing. |
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Young artists, trained at the workshop from Fiji, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Solomon Islands have subsequently opened up small family business workshops for woodblock printing and paper-making. |
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This dress is of off-white muslin woodblock printed with alternating broad vertical stripes of decorative motifs in tan, and stripes of trailing poppies and wisteria branches in red and blue on a stippled ground. |
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New processes enabled designers to decorate wallpaper with photogravure, and high-speed techniques were developed for the more traditional screen printing and woodblock methods. |
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The dance is characterized by acrobatic and sensual movements by women and men, driven by a polyrhythmic drummer accompanied by men playing woodblock clappers and by women handclapping, yodelling and blowing whistles. |
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Art Nouveau graphic designs often utilized stylized abstract shapes, contoured lines, and flat space inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. |
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In East Asia, both woodblock and movable type printing were manual reproduction techniques, that is hand printing. |
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Compared to woodblock printing, movable type page setting and printing using a press was faster and more durable. |
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The masters of Ukiyo-e, the woodblock print, like Utamaro, immortalized its great courtesans and its famous houses of prostitution. |
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There were many notable innovations during the Tang, including the development of woodblock printing. |
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Big Allium Stripe Orange and Pink by Tessa Pearson is a large monoprint woodblock work with the architectural flowers against a striped background. |
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He was inspired by Japanese woodblock prints and their colorful palettes. |
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The earliest surviving woodblock printed fragments are from China. |
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