Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Winslow Homer: Illustrating America
Those in the art establishment who like to rewrite art history, or simply ignore it, in the defense of their position that illustration is somehow “not art”, conveniently ignore the number of well known artists who also happened to be illustrators. A case in point is Winslow Homer, widely regarded to be one of the…
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch is another of those artists, like Whistler or even Hokusai, whose oeuvre is condensed to a single image in the minds of most people, in this case his iconic image The Scream. There are actually several versions of The Scream, including both paintings and prints, more than one of which have…
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Kerr Eby
For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have given or risked their lives, endured hardships and put themselves in the service of their country in military service. The same date, November…
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Art of the Poster 1880-1918
The era around the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century was the high water mark for the art of poster design. Technological innovations at the time allowed the use of mass-produced zinc plates instead of awkward and expensive lithographic stones to reproduce multiple images, and the artists could take…
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Exquisite Visions of Japan
The Blanton Museum of Art, part of the University of Texas at Austin, is currently showing Exquisite Visions of Japan, which is an exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints from the James A. Michener Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Though the online image gallery on the museum’s site is minimal, it provides a nice…
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Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 at the Brooklyn Museum
We tend to think of Japanese prints as depicting serene, contemplative scenes of mountains and gardens; and characterize them as the work of Zen-like removal from the bustle of everyday life. On hearing that the term Ukiyo-e, the name for one of the most prominent genres of Japanese prints, refers to “pictures of the floating…