One of the most-told stories about 19th-century art recounts how prints from Japan, suddenly available in the West after the country was wrenched open in the 1850s, profoundly altered European ...
New Utagawa Hiroshige exhibition at British Museum to display rare Japanese prints by renowned artist - Vast majority of prints on display have never been seen before with several being the only survi ...
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple ...
The latest among them is “The Print Generation” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. This exhibition focuses on the generation of Japanese printmakers in the early decades of ...
DeWitt also pointed out a throughline from Monet’s Floating Worlds to the rest of the museum, flagging Chinese art influenced ...
Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest types of printmaking. In woodblock prints, the design is cut or carved into a ...