Lai Shaoqi was a Chinese calligrapher and painter known for his expressive woodblock prints. Born on May 16 ... The artist went on to fight the Japanese, was arrested, and broke out of prison. Lai ...
Scholten Japanese Art opened their Asia Week Autumn 2024 exhibition, TREASURED VIEWS: The Neil Stipanich Collection of Kawase Hasui Woodblock Prints. Christie’s celebrates Asian Art Week at ...
Joichi Hoshi was a Japanese ... woodblock process. Born in 1913 in Niigata, Japan, Hoshi began his artistic career after working as an elementary school teacher in Taiwan for several years. He later ...
Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...
Scholten Japanese Art is presenting, On The Vanguard: Meiji Period Woodblock Prints, a two-part exhibition, with thirty prints in each section, exploring the creative expression seen in Meiji-era ...
This presentation features the most ephemeral of all Japanese prints, Edo-period fans depicting popular Kabuki actors, ...
prints from Pakistan’ at the National Art Gallery, showcasing a unique fusion of traditional Japanese woodblock printing with Pakistani artistic sensibilities. The exhibition, which would run ...
The next day, Bonhams presented its version of the Edo Period woodblock print in a sale of Japanese prints and watercolors from a private collection. Bonhams’ version of The Great Wave notably ...
Rain. You forgot your umbrella. That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River.
This print has two names: 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa' and 'The Great Wave'. Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest ...