Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer

Ukiyo-e woodcut, Ishiyama Moon by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1889)

Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges. The areas to show 'white' are cut away with a knife or chisel, leaving the characters or image to show in 'black' at the original surface level. The block is cut along the grain of the wood (unlike wood engraving where the block is cut in the end-grain). In Europe beechwood was most commonly used; in Japan a special type of cherrywood. Download high resolution version (550x759, 152 KB)Dürers Four horsemen of the Apocalypse The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Download high resolution version (550x759, 152 KB)Dürers Four horsemen of the Apocalypse The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Four horsemen redirects here. ... Albrecht Dürer (pronounced /al. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1259x1958, 551 KB) Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) fr: La Lune de Ishiyama, 1889 en: Ishiyama Moon, 1889 it: La luna di Ishiyama, 1889 File links The following pages link to this file: Woodcut ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1259x1958, 551 KB) Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892) fr: La Lune de Ishiyama, 1889 en: Ishiyama Moon, 1889 it: La luna di Ishiyama, 1889 File links The following pages link to this file: Woodcut ... View of Mount Fuji from Numazu, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series by Hiroshige, published 1850 Ukiyo-e ), pictures of the floating world, is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of... Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - June 9, 1892) (Japanese: 月岡 芳年; also named Taiso Yoshitoshi 大蘇　芳年) was the last great master - and one of the great innovative and creative geniuses - of the Japanese woodblock print. ... A relief print is an image created by a printmaking process, such as woodcut, where the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show printed black (typically) are on the original surface; the parts of the matrix that are to be blank (white) having been cut themselves... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ... Thomas Bewick. ... Species Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech Fagus engleriana - Chinese Beech Fagus grandifolia - American Beech Fagus hayatae - Taiwan Beech Fagus japonica - Japanese Blue Beech Fagus longipetiolata - South Chinese Beech Fagus lucida - Shining Beech Fagus mexicana - Mexican Beech or Haya Fagus orientalis - Oriental Beech Fagus sylvatica - European Beech Beech (Fagus) is a genus... Cherry tree redirects here. ...

The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas. CSI:MILWAUKEE PART 2 THE MANHUNT For THE MARINE SNIPER produced BY BRYAN NEUMANN AND CO PRODUCER KATHERINE STROMEYER LT. Neumann awoke in a deep dark smelly warehouse somewhere in the Milwaukee harbor and he realized that his Dalay 9mm was gone and so where his hand cuffs. ...

Multiple colors can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks (where a different block is used for each color). The art of carving the woodcut can be called "xylography", but this is rarely used in English.

Division of labour

In both Europe and Japan, traditionally the artist only designed the woodcut, and the block-carving was left to specialist craftsmen, called "formschneider" in German, some of whom became well-known in their own right. They in turn handed the block on to specialist printers. There were further specialists who made the blank blocks.

There were various methods of transferring the artist's drawn design onto the block for the cutter to follow. Either the drawing would be made directly onto the block (often whitened first), or a drawing on paper was glued to the block. Either way, the artist's drawing was destroyed during the cutting process. Other methods were used, including tracing. Drawing involves the choice of one or more tools from a wide variety and the choice of a support appropriate to that tool in order to make marks. ...

This is why woodcuts are sometimes described by museums or books as "designed by" rather than "by" an artist; but most authorities do not use this distinction. The division of labour had the advantage that a trained artist could adapt to the medium relatively easily, without needing to learn the use of woodworking tools. Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ...

In both Europe and Japan, in the early twentieth century some artists began to do the whole process themselves. In Japan, this movement was called Sōsaku hanga, as opposed to the Shin hanga movement, which retained the traditional methods. In the West, many artists used the easier technique of linocut instead. The sōsaku hanga (literally creative prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, was one of the revitalizing forces in ukiyo-e, the traditional art of woodblock printing which had its roots in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). ... The shin hanga (literally new prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, revitalized traditional ukiyo-e art which had its roots in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). ... Linocut Gandria by Carl Eugen Keel Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface. ...

Methods of printing

Block-cutter at work. woodcut by Jost Amman 1568

Compared to intaglio techniques like etching and engraving, only low pressure is required to print. As a relief method, it is only necessary to ink the block and bring it into firm and even contact with the paper of cloth to achieve an acceptable print. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 460 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (722 × 941 pixel, file size: 261 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) +/- (All user names refer to de. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 460 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (722 × 941 pixel, file size: 261 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) +/- (All user names refer to de. ... Jost Amman (1539–1591) was a Swiss artist, celebrated chiefly for his engravings on wood. ... Intaglio is a printmaking technique in which the image is incised into a surface. ... Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ...

There are three methods of printing to consider:

• Stamping: Used for many fabrics and most early European woodcuts (1400-40). These were printed by putting the paper/fabric on a table or other flat surface with the block on top, & pressing or hammering the back of the block

• Rubbing: Apparently the most common method for Far Eastern printing on paper at all times. Used for European woodcuts and block-books later in the fifteenth century, and very widely for cloth. Also used for many Western woodcuts from about 1910 to the present. The block goes face up on a table, with the paper or fabric on top. The back is rubbed with a "hard pad, a flat piece of wood, a burnisher, or a leather frotton".^[1] A modern tool used for this is called a baren. Later in Japan, complex wooden mechanisms were used to help hold the woodblock perfectly still and to apply proper pressure in the printing process. This was especially helpful once multiple colors began to be introduced, and needed to be applied with precision atop previous ink layers.

• Printing in a press: Presses only seem to have been used in Asia in relatively recent times. Printing-presses were used from about 1480 for European prints and block-books, and before that for woodcut book illustrations. Simple weighted presses may have been used in Europe before the print-press, but firm evidence is lacking. A deceased Abbess of Mechelen in 1465 had "unum instrumentum ad imprintendum scripturas et ymagines ... cum 14 aliis lapideis printis" - "an instrument for printing texts and pictures ... with 14 stones for printing" which is probably too early to be a Gutenberg-type printing press in that location.^[1]

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History

Bar by Carl Eugen Keel (1885-1961)

Main articles Old master print for Europe, Lubok for Russia, and Woodblock printing in Japan for Japan. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 399 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (799 × 1201 pixel, file size: 379 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Woodcut Metadata This file contains additional... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 399 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (799 × 1201 pixel, file size: 379 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Woodcut Metadata This file contains additional... The term Old Master Print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). ... In Russian, Lubok (Cyrillic: Лубок) stands for: The bark of tilia, which had a variety of uses in Russia. ... A page from an 18th century printed book by Nishikawa Sukenobu depicting Hina Matsuri (Dolls Festival) events. ...

Woodcut has been most widely practised in Japan and Europe.

fergalicious definition makes them girls go locoIn Europe, Woodcut is the oldest technique used for old master prints, developing about 1400, by using on paper existing techniques for printing on cloth. The explosion of sales of cheap woodcuts in the middle of the century led to a fall in standards, and many popular prints were very crude. The development of hatching followed on rather later than in engraving. Michael Wolgemut was significant in making German woodcut more sophisticated from about 1475, and Erhard Reuwich was the first to use cross-hatching (far harder to do than in engraving or etching). Both of these produced mainly book-illustrations, as did various Italian artists who were also raising standards there at the same period. At the end of the century Albrecht Dürer brought the Western woodcut to a level that has never been surpassed, and greatly increased the status of the single-leaf (ie an image sold separately) woodcut. The term Old Master Print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). ... Popular Prints is a term for printed images of generally low artistic quality which were sold cheaply in Europe and later the New World from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, often with text as well as images. ... Albrecht Dürer, Veronica, 1513. ... Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it. ... Michael Wohlgemuth (1434 - 1519), German painter, was born at Nuremberg. ... Hand-coloured woodcut by Erhard Reuwich of the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchure, Jerusalem Erhard Reuwich was a Netherlandish artist, as a designer of woodcuts, and printer who came from Utrecht but then worked in Mainz. ... Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. ... Albrecht Dürer (pronounced /al. ...

As woodcut can be easily printed together with movable type, because both are relief-printed, it was the main medium for book illustrations until the late-sixteenth century. The first woodcut book illustration dates to about 1461, only a few years after the beginning of printing with movable type, printed by Albrecht Pfister in Bamberg. Woodcut was used less often for individual ("single-leaf") fine-art prints from about 1550 until the late nineteenth-century, when interest revived. It continued to be important for popular prints until the nineteenth century in most of Europe, and later in some places. A case of cast metal type pieces and typeset matter in a composing stick Movable type is the system of printing and typography using movable pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. ... Bamberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. ... Popular Prints is a term for printed images of generally low artistic quality which were sold cheaply in Europe and later the New World from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, often with text as well as images. ...

The art reached a high level of technical and artistic development in East Asia and Iran. In Japan woodblock printing is called "moku hanga", and was introduced in the seventeenth century for both books and art. The popular "floating world" genre of ukiyo-e originated in the second half of the seventeenth century, with prints in monocrome or two colours. Sometimes these were hand-coloured after printing. Later prints with many colours were developed. Japanese woodcut became a major artistic form, although at the time it was accorded a much lower status than painting. It continued to develop through to the twentieth century. East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ... A page from an 18th century printed book by Nishikawa Sukenobu depicting Hina Matsuri (Dolls Festival) events. ... View of Mount Fuji from Numazu, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series by Hiroshige, published 1850 Ukiyo-e ), pictures of the floating world, is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of...

In China and Tibet printed images mostly remained tied as illustrations to accompanying text until the modern period. The earliest woodblock printed book, the Diamond Sutra contains a large image as frontispiece, and many Buddhist texts contain some images. Later some notable Chinese artists designed woodcuts for books, but the individual print did not develop in China as an art-form in the way it did in Europe and Japan. The Chinese Diamond Sutra, the oldest known dated printed book in the world, printed in the 9th year of Xiantong Era of the Tang Dynasty, i. ...

White-line woodcut

The Crab that played with the sea, Woodcut by Rudyard Kipling illustrating one of his Just So Stories. In mixed white-line (below) and normal woodcut (above)

This technique just carves the image in mostly thin lines, not unlike a rather crude engraving. The block is printed in the normal way, so that most of the print is black with the image created by white lines. This process was invented by the sixteenth-century Swiss artist Urs Graf, but became most popular in the nineteenth and twentieth century, often in a modified form where images used large areas of white-line contasted with areas in the normal black-line style. This was pioneered by Félix Vallotton. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 423 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (532 × 753 pixel, file size: 105 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image was (or all images in this article or category were) uploaded in the JPEG format. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 423 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (532 × 753 pixel, file size: 105 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This image was (or all images in this article or category were) uploaded in the JPEG format. ... This article is about the British author. ... See also Just-so story for anthropological sense Wikisource has original text related to this article: Just So Stories The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. ... The wild army (Urs Graf, around 1520). ... Félix Vallotton was a Franco-Swiss painter, engraver, illustrator and writer (Lausanne 1865-Paris 1925). ...

Japonisme

Main article: Japonism

In the 1860s, just as the Japanese themselves were becoming aware of Western art in general, Japanese prints began to reach Europe in considerable numbers, and became very fashionable, especially in France. They had a great influence on many artists, notably Edouard Manet, Pierre Bonnard, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Félix Vallotton and Mary Cassatt. In 1872 Jules Claretie dubbed the trend "Le Japonisme".^[2] Van Gogh - Portrait of Pere Tanguy Example of ukiyo-e influence in Western art Japonism (also in French Japonisme and Japonaiserie) is the influence of Japanese art on Western, primarily French, artists. ... Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar) Édouard Manet (January 23, 1832 - April 30, 1883) was a noted French painter. ... The Dining Room in the Country Pierre Bonnard (October 3, 1867 – January 23, 1947) was a French painter and printmaker. ... Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [äNrÄ“ du tOOlOOz lōtrek] (November 24, 1864 – September 9, 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draftsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the decadent and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an oeuvre of provocative images of modern life. ... Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917), born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (IPA ), was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. ... Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 – May 9, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. ... Félix Vallotton was a Franco-Swiss painter, engraver, illustrator and writer (Lausanne 1865-Paris 1925). ... Self-portrait (1878) by painter Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. ...

Though the Japanese influence was reflected in many artistic media, including painting, it did lead to a revival of the woodcut in Europe, which had been in danger of extinction as a serious art medium. Most of the artists above, except for Félix Vallotton and Paul Gauguin, in fact used lithography, especially for coloured prints. Lithography stone and mirror-image print of a map of Munich. ...

Artists, notably Edvard Munch and Franz Masereel, continued to use the medium, which in Modernism came to appeal because it was relatively easy to complete the whole process, including printing, in a studio with little special equipment. The German Expressionists used woodcut a good deal. Edvard Munchs Tomb, Oslo, Norway Edvard Munch (IPA: , December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art. ... Frans Masereel (1889-1972) was a belgian painter, one of the greatest woodcut artist of our time. ... For Modernism in an American context, see American modernism. ... On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ...

Colour

European woodcut prints with coloured blocks were invented in Germany in 1508 and are known as chiaroscuro woodcuts (see below). However colour did not become the norm, as it did in Japan. In Europe and Japan, colour woodcuts were normally only used for prints rather than book illustrations. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tenebrism. ...

In China, where the individual print did not develop until the nineteenth century, the reverse is true, and early colour woodcuts mostly occur in luxury books about art, especially the more prestigeous medium of painting. The first known example is a book on ink-cakes printed in 1606, and colour technique reached its height in books on painting published in the seventeenth century. Notable examples are the Treatise on the Paintings and Writings of the Ten Bamboo Studio of 1633, and the Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual published in 1679 and 1701.^[3]

In Japan colour technique, called nishiki-e in its fully developed form, spread more widely, and was used for prints, from the 1760s on. Text was nearly always monochrome, as were images in books, but the growth of the popularity of ukiyo-e brought with it demand for ever increasing numbers of colors and complexity of techniques. By the nineteenth century most artists worked in colour. The stages of this development were: Nishiki-e (錦絵, a brocade picture) refers to multi-colored woodblock printing, especially of ukiyo-e. ...

• Sumizuri-e (墨摺り絵, "ink printed pictures") - monochrome printing using only black ink
• Benizuri-e (紅摺り絵, "crimson printed pictures") - red ink details or highlights added by hand after the printing process；green was sometimes used as well
• Tan-e (丹絵) - orange highlights using a red pigment called tan
• Aizuri-e (藍摺り絵, "indigo printed pictures"), Murasaki-e (紫絵, "purple pictures"), and other styles in which a single color would be used in addition to, or instead of, black ink
• Urushi-e (漆絵) - a method in which glue was used to thicken the ink, emboldening the image; gold, mica and other substances were often used to enhance the image further. Urushi-e can also refer to paintings using lacquer instead of paint; lacquer was very rarely if ever used on prints.
• Nishiki-e (錦絵, "brocade pictures") - a method in which multiple blocks were used for separate portions of the image, allowing a number of colors to be utilized to achieve incredibly complex and detailed images; a separate block would be carved to apply only to the portion of the image designated for a single color. Registration marks called kentō (見当) were used to ensure correspondence between the application of each block.

Nishimura Shigenobu, Shōki and Girl, c. ... In a general sense, lacquer is a clear or coloured coating, that dries by solvent evaporation only and that produces a hard, durable finish that can be polished to a very high gloss, and gives the illusion of depth. ... Nishiki-e (錦絵, a brocade picture) refers to multi-colored woodblock printing, especially of ukiyo-e. ...

Chiaroscuro woodcuts

Chiaroscuro woodcut depicting Playing cupids. Anonymous 16th century Italian artist.

Chiaroscuro woodcuts do not necessarily feature strong contrasts of light and dark, but are old master prints in woodcut using two or more blocks printed in different colours. They were first invented by Hans Burgkmair in Germany in 1508, and first made in Italy by Ugo da Carpi a few years later.[1] Other printmakers to use the technique include Cranach , Hans Baldung Grien and Parmigianino. In Germany the technique was only in use for a few years, but Italians continued to use it throughout the sixteenth century, and later artists like Goltzius sometimes made use of it. In the German style, one block usually had only lines and is called the "line block", whilst the other block or blocks had flat areas of colour and are called "tone blocks". The Italians usually used only tone blocks, for a very different effect, much closer to the drawings the term was originally used for, or watercolours. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 313 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 313 pixel, file size: 51 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author Italienisch, 16. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 500 × 313 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 313 pixel, file size: 51 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Author Italienisch, 16. ... It has been suggested that Cupid (holiday character) be merged into this article or section. ... The term Old Master Print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). ... Altarpiece by Burgkmair. ... Ugo da Carpi (c. ... Printmaking is a process for producing a work of art in ink; the work (called a print) is created indirectly, through the transfer of ink from the surface upon which the work was originally drawn or otherwise composed. ... Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586) This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Three Ages of the Woman and the Death 1510 Oil on limewood,48 x 32,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hans Baldung or Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Icarus by Goltzius Hendrik Goltzius (1558 - January 1, 1617), Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter, was born at Millebrecht, in the duchy of Julich. ... Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ...

Modern variant

In modern printmaking, a quick method of separating printing from non-printing areas is to cover the printing areas with a shield, and then blasting the whole surface, either by sandblasting or shotblasting. The shield may be a metal outline, or a thick coat of rubber cement or similar compound. Man sandblasting a stone wall Device used for adding sand to the compressed air (top of which is a sieve for adding the sand) Diesel powered compressor used as an air supply for sandbasting Sandblasting or bead blasting[1] is a generic term for the process of smoothing, shaping and... Rubber Cement is an adhesive made from polymers mixed in a solvent such as acetone, hexane, heptane or benzene to keep them fluid enough to be used. ...

Examples

A less sophisticated woodcut, destinated to book printing (Ortus Sanitatis lapidary, Venice, Bernardino Benaglio e Giovanni de Cereto, 1511)

Europe Image File history File links Size of this preview: 549 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1717 × 1874 pixel, file size: 499 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Lapidary illustration (XVI century) Ortus Sanitatis, Venezia, Bernardino Benaglio e Giovanni de Cereto, 1511 +/- File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 549 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1717 × 1874 pixel, file size: 499 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Lapidary illustration (XVI century) Ortus Sanitatis, Venezia, Bernardino Benaglio e Giovanni de Cereto, 1511 +/- File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this...

• Dürer's Rhinoceros
• Emblem book
• Four horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• Just So Stories
• Ars moriendi
• Lubok prints

Japan Dürers Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut created by German painter and wood carver Albrecht Dürer in 1515. ... Emblem books are a particular style of illustrated book developed in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, normally containing about one hundred picture/text combinations. ... Four horsemen redirects here. ... It has been suggested that Poliphilo be merged into this article or section. ... See also Just-so story for anthropological sense Wikisource has original text related to this article: Just So Stories The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. ... Pride of the spirit is one of the five temptations of the dying man, according to Ars moriendi. ... In Russian, Lubok (Cyrillic: Лубок) stands for: The bark of tilia, which had a variety of uses in Russia. ...

• 36 Views of Mount Fuji (Hokusai)
• The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
• Ukiyo-e

In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa, woodcut by Katsushika Hokusai 36 Views of Mount Fuji (Japanese: 富嶽三十六景; Fugaku Sanjū-Rokkei) is a series of woodblock prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), depicting Mount Fuji in differing seasons and weather conditions from... The Dream of the Fishermans Wife is an erotic woodcut made circa 1820 by Hokusai, perhaps the first instance of tentacled creatures appearing in Japanese erotica (sometimes called tentacle sex). ... View of Mount Fuji from Numazu, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series by Hiroshige, published 1850 Ukiyo-e ), pictures of the floating world, is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of...

Artists

• Hans Baldung
• Max Beckmann
• Hans Burgkmair
• Domenico Campagnola
• Ugo da Carpi
• Gustave Doré
• Werner Drewes
• Albrecht Dürer
• M. C. Escher
• Yan Han
• Urs Graf
• Suzuki Harunobu
• Hiroshige
• Hokusai
• Kathe Kollwitz
• Fritz Kredel
• Frans Masereel
• Edvard Munch
• Félix Vallotton
• Hishikawa Moronobu
• Giovanni Battista Palumba
• Utamaro

Three Ages of the Woman and the Death 1510 Oil on limewood,48 x 32,5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Hans Baldung or Hans Baldung Grien/Grün (c. ... Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. ... Altarpiece by Burgkmair. ... Domenico Campagnola (c. ... Ugo da Carpi (c. ... Doré photographed by Felix Nadar. ... Werner Drewes, 1940 Drewes, Pencil Sketch Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. ... Albrecht Dürer (pronounced /al. ... Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1971), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations. ... The wild army (Urs Graf, around 1520). ... Suzuki Harunobu (鈴木春信) (1724 – 1770) was a Japanese artist. ... Memorial portrait of Hiroshige by Kunisada. ... Katsushika Hokusai, (葛飾北斎), (1760—1849[1]), was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period . ... Käthe Kollwitz (July 8, 1867 - 22 April 1945) was a German artist. ... Art by Fritz Kredel (1900-73) Fritz Kredel (1900-1973) was a German graphic designer who later emigrated to America. ... Frans Masereel (1889-1972) was a Belgian painter, one of the greatest woodcut artist of our time. ... Edvard Munchs Tomb, Oslo, Norway Edvard Munch (IPA: , December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker, and an important forerunner of Expressionistic art. ... Félix Vallotton was a Franco-Swiss painter, engraver, illustrator and writer (Lausanne 1865-Paris 1925). ... Hishikawa Moronobu (1618-1694) was the son of a well-respected dyer and gold- and silver-thread embroiderer in the village of Hodamura, Awa Province, near Edo Bay. ... Kitagawa Utamaro, Flowers of Edo: Young Womans Narrative Chanting to the Shamisen, ca. ...

See also

• Woodblock printing - Overview of history, including non-artistic uses
• Printmaking - main article covering all techniques
• Relief print
• Ukiyo-e - main article on Japanese woodcut prints
• Shin hanga - C20 "New Prints" movement in Japan
• Sōsaku hanga- C20 "Creative Prints" movement in Japan
• old master print - Social and Art History of the woodcut and other print techniques
• blockbooks - Medieval European books with both text and pictures in woodcut
• wood engraving - invented by Bewick; much used in C19
• Linocut
• metalcut - C15 woodcuts from metal plates
• Cordel literature - Popular Brazilian woodcut books
• Rubber stamp
• Chiaroscuro - Western woodcuts in colour

Yuan dynasty woodblock edition of a Chinese play For the use of the technique in art, see Woodcut on the technique, and Old master print for the history in Europe and woodblock printing in Japan Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East... Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. ... A relief print is an image created by a printmaking process, such as woodcut, where the areas of the matrix (plate or block) that are to show printed black (typically) are on the original surface; the parts of the matrix that are to be blank (white) having been cut themselves... View of Mount Fuji from Numazu, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series by Hiroshige, published 1850 Ukiyo-e ), pictures of the floating world, is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of... The shin hanga (literally new prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, revitalized traditional ukiyo-e art which had its roots in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). ... The sōsaku hanga (literally creative prints) art movement in early 20th century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods, was one of the revitalizing forces in ukiyo-e, the traditional art of woodblock printing which had its roots in the Edo and Meiji periods (17th–19th century). ... The term Old Master Print is used to describe works of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (European or New World). ... It has been suggested that Block printing be merged into this article or section. ... Thomas Bewick. ... Linocut Gandria by Carl Eugen Keel Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface. ... Metalcut is a relief printmaking technique, belonging to the category of old master prints. ... Typical example of a cordel booklet Cordel literature (Portuguese for string literature) are popular and cheap printed booklets pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs, which are produced and sold in fairs and by sidestreet vendors in the northeast of Brazil. ... This article is about vulcanized rubber stamps. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Tenebrism. ...

References

There is also the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), located in Manhattan. ...

External links

• Ukiyo-e from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
• Woodcut in Europe from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
• Italian Renaissance Woodcut Book Illustration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
• Museum of Modern Art information on printing techniques and examples of prints.
• Woodcut in early printed books (online exhibition from the Library of Congress)

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