12/04/2011
Master printer Keizaburo Matsuzaki visited the Art Gallery of New South Wales in March 2010 in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to beauty: the art of Utamaro. He brought the woodblocks to create a print of Takashima Ohisa, the teahouse waitress, designed by Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806) in the 1790s....
06/12/2010
Moku-hanga is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre; however, it was also used very widely for printing books in the same period. Woodblock printing had been used in China for centuries to print books, long before the advent of movable type, but was only widely adopted in Japan...
12/11/2010
ukiyo-e...
08/09/2010
The linocut is one of the "technical exenciales" of wood engraving...
18/01/2010
Image Printing woodcuts with the Gutenberg press, quite a demonstration of early printing and reproduction of images and texts for dissemination call it "massive". Next to this first add another video explaining the operation and delivery of this release....
12/01/2010
The ukiyo-e is the traditional Japanese woodcuts, in which no etching press used for stamping if not the barem and instead use gouges to the most important are the knife, here we see the whole process but in summary hands of a professional of barem....