Category: Prints and Printmaking

Like his contemporary, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kawase Hasui was a renowned woodblock print artist of the Shin hanga, or “new prints” movement in early 20th Century Japan. Also like Yoshida, Hasui traveled extensively and produced images of a variety of locations, though not as much outside of Japan as Yoshida. Instead, Hasui sought out remote landscapes…

The Linosaurus is a fascinating blog devoted to “…the lesser Gods and Goddesses of linoleum and woodblock printing”. In it, the author, a blogger in the Netherlands (who I identifed as “Gerrie Caspers”, inferred from the URL of the blog and his email address) selects printmakers both old and contemporary, known and unknown, and features…

In the mid 19th Century the great Japanese print maker Utagawa Hiroshige (also known as Ando Hiroshige) created his most well known and influential series of prints, titled One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. These are considered to be among the greatest works in Japanese art. The Brooklyn Museum, which has a complete set in…

One of the things that visual art does at its best is allow us to see the world through fresh eyes, reframing the ordinary as extraordinary. Sometimes, however, the artworks become so iconic and familiar as to need reframing themselves in order to be seen freshly. M.C. Escher, despite being treated for years by art…

Tokyo born artist Ray Morimura creates woodblock and linocut prints that manage to feel at once traditional and modern. His crisp, sharp edges of color delineate forms that often repeat or combine to form patterns, at times varying in size to suggest perspective and distance. Morimura studied painting at Tokyo Gakugel University. He originally worked…