also studied these woodblock compositions. Alfred Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, put “Japanese Prints” at the very top of his famous genealogy of “Cubism and Abstract ...

Journey through Japan ... woodblock print by nineteenth-century artist Utagawa Kunisada depicting the legend of the Shintō sun goddess Amaterasu. The tale of the selfless Rabbit in the Moon ...

"When I came into this store, I was like a kid walking into a candy shop," Madrigal, 23, told AFP at Super Potato in the Akihabara district famous ... Japan. It's a bit like Japanese woodblock ...

To mark the British Council's 90th anniversary, Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Day and Online sale (Thursday, 10th ...

Unlike the very famous Japanese prints from the Edo period (those that ... the turning of people's interests to western technologies. From the 1870s, print production via non-woodblock media such as ...

Edo Era Animals From the extensive design archives of Unsodo, Japan's sole publisher of woodblock prints, this collection showcases animals depicted by prominent Edo era artists. The animals depicted ...

These were woodblock prints designed as full-page illustrations to accompany ... Yoshitoshi's series Mirror of Famous Generals of Great Japan consists of fifty-one woodblocks, published in his middle ...

Shunga – Japanese erotic art – depicts a world awash with sex. In a famous image, a woman lies on the sea floor ... These gorgeous pictures were created by woodblock print artists and are crafted with ...