Woodblock printing requires carving out an image on a wood block, in the opposite direction of what you’d like it to look like when it’s printed. Want to see her art? The show opens 5-7 p.m ...

Case in point: On Tuesday, Christie’s in New York sold Katsushika Hokusai’s “Under the Well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa” for $2.8 million—a new record high for the 1830-32 woodblock ...

Woodblock printing, which first appeared in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), and reached its peak during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is a technique for printing text, images or patterns.

Ukiyo-e prints were cheap to produce and widely distributed in Edo (today’s Tokyo) between the 17th and 19th centuries. As many as 5,000 impressions were made from the original woodblocks for ...

TOKYO (AP) — World-famous Japanese woodblock print artist Hokusai's art is on exhibit in Tokyo — on the license plates of scooters. The design, by a local student, blends old and new — the ...

It is hard to know exactly why certain artworks, like the “Mona Lisa” or this one, achieve such massive fame. But this woodblock print, which measures just 14⅛ by 20 inches, is undoubtedly a ...

Object Details author Vollmer, April Contents History and Significance -- Tools and Materials for Printing -- Washi, Japanese Handmade Paper -- Creating a Print Step by Step -- New Directions in ...

It was also the case, however, that in Japanese woodblock prints ferocious and threatening figures such as monsters and renegades were stigmatized by the same strange blue eyeball. Whatever the ...

He dissected each scene into several layers of color. He then carved each layer onto a 9-by-7-inch woodblock, covered the woodblock in ink, and printed the ink onto Japanese paper. He solifidied the ...