Berkshire Eagle

REVIEW: Go for the Japanese woodblock prints, stay for the art history lesson

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...
University of Wyoming

Binnie in Context: Woodblock Prints from the Collection

Often brightly colored and meticulously detailed, woodblock prints gained initial prominence in Japan as an accessible artform during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Prints made during this period are ...

Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige review – how two Japanese masters reinvented art

Hokusai’s breathtaking woodblock print may be ubiquitous today but, as this startling show reminds us, it’s also an apocalyptic vision of a world about to change ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Museum showcases Japanese woodblock print collection

sdmart.org/art/ exhibit/dreams-diversions. As recently as 1970, the San Diego Museum of Art didn’t have a very high opinion of its collection of Japanese woodblock ...
Seattle Times

Japanese woodblock prints bring Edo period to life

The Ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Japan’s Edo period manage to speak volumes about their world without raising their voice. These delicate yet powerfully evocative images are the fullest expression of ...
Hyperallergic

The Spectacle of War in Woodblock Prints

Kobayashi Kiyochika’s woodblock print depicts a naval battle near Phung-tō in Korea during the Sino-Japanese War. It is part of an album published by Daikokuya Heikichi in 1895. (all images courtesy ...
Santa Barbara Independent

Japanese Woodblock Prints at SBMA

In recent years, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art has hosted some significant touring exhibitions, including its current show of 19th-century paintings from the Walters Art Museum. In all the ...
Portland Press Herald

Woodblock print master showcases techniques at Arundel Farm Gallery workshop

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Lisa Houck, left, a New England artist who will soon be moving to Maine, has ...
Columbia Missourian

Japanese woodblock prints illustrate calming scenes

"The peace accompanying the beginning of evening happens to me with this print," said Mary Pixley, associate curator at the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology. She was gazing at a woodblock print of an ...
Hyperallergic

Why Are Hiroshige’s Woodblock Prints Still So Moving?

Utagawa Hiroshige, "Ryōgoku Ekōin and Moto-Yanagibashi Bridge" (1857) (all images courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) The Brooklyn Museum’s Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami) is ...
Los Angeles Times

Rare Chinese prints at the Huntington capture the art of the woodblock

It’s considered one of most historically and artistically important illustrated books of 17th century Chinese woodblock art: “Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Pictures,” a rare edition ...