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	Woodblock printing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text or images used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China sometime between the mid-6th and late 9th centuries.
		The three necessary components for woodblock printing are the printing block, or woodcut, which carries the design; ink, which had been widely used even in early China; and paper, itself also first developed in China, around the 3rd or 2nd century BC.
		Indeed, the development of woodblock printing around this time may have had more to do with the availability of paper and the missionary zeal of Buddhism (the spread of charms and sutras was strongly encouraged) than with any “invention” of woodblock printing, which already had ample precedents in Chinese rubbings and seals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodblock_printing (582 words)

	Woodblock Printmaking - History and Technique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In woodblock printmaking, the parts of the block which are not to appear on the print are removed from the block by cutting them away with a knife.
		Woodblock printmaking bases on cutting those areas that are not to be printed out of a wooden block.
		In the Asian woodblock printmaking tradition, water-based ink is applied to the block and spread over the block with different brushes, in the Japanese technique additionally with a printing paste made of rice, and the block is hand printed with a rubber tool on dry or humid paper.
	www.druckstelle.info /en/holzschnitt_allg.htm (927 words)

	Ukiyo-e Woodblock Technique
		Many woodblock artists were commissioned to create original compositions to decorate household interiors or design personalized surimono (small private editions of greeting cards) for upper-class clients, who could afford the luxury of one-of-a-kind works of art.
		However, the popularity of woodblock prints with a broad middle-class market of tradesmen made this category of work lucrative for any painter.
		Woodblock design was a ready source of supplemental income.
	www.artgallery.sbc.edu /ukiyoe/woodblocktechnique.html (1247 words)

	History of Japanese Woodblock Prints
		The Japanese Woodblock Print is an art form, which highlights flowing, curved outlines, simplistic forms as well as the detailing of flat areas containing color.
		Woodblock printing was first used in Japan in the 8th century to print religious texts.
		While landscapes and scenes of ordinary life became popular towards the end of the Ukiyo-e period, woodblock prints of beautiful women were the first subjects of Ukiyo-e artists in the late seventeenth century and these types of prints remained popular until Ukiyo-e fell from prominence in the mid-1800s.
	www.asianartmall.com /AboutWoodBlockPrints.html (1116 words)

	druckstelle berlin - Chinese Woodblock Printing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the Ming period (1368-1644) woodblock printing was used for art purposes with the reproduction of colour ink washes, letter- and poetry papers.
		However woodblock printing in China was not considered to be a separate form of art, and only just used for exact copying of existing paintings.
		As opposed to the Japanese and Western woodblock, the different details of a design are not cut into a single block but divided onto several different small blocks, which are fixed to the right position at the printing table.
	www.druckstelle.info /en/holzschnitt_china.htm (742 words)

	FightingArts.com - Japanese Woodblock Prints
		The suffix “e” on ukiyo-e means picture and hence, ukiyo-e is the term used for the pictures – that is the woodblock prints, the paintings and the book illustrations – depicting these joys of the common people that first appeared in the 17th century.
		While paintings was an art mostly enjoyed by the aristocracy, the ukiyo-e colour prints was a popular school that was dependent on the emergence of the wealthy bourgeoisie that loved the pleasures of the city and were avid for novelty.
		While the woodblock printing technique had been used from the 8th in Japan by Buddhist scholars for disseminating religious teaching and sacred images, there had been no other movement that demonstrated a need for this relatively simple technology for more than 800 years.
	www.fightingarts.com /reading/article.php?id=249 (2760 words)

	Microsoft Art Collection Online Exhibitions
		The simple process involved in the creation of the woodblock print has led many observers to believe that it is one of the original art forms.
		The difference between the Western practice of using the woodblock as an additional media and the eastern tradition of master printmaking is apparent in Microsoft’s collection.
		Microsoft’s collection of woodblock prints demonstrates this history and its diversity, reflecting the collection’s contemporary focus by engaging with the past.
	www.microsoft.com /mscorp/artcollection/exhibitions/WPE2002 (1577 words)

	Daryl Howard Art
		Woodblock printmaking is an ancient technique dating back to the 2nd century BC in China.
		In 770 A.D., woodblock prints first appeared in Japan, a country that has enjoyed a long tradition of woodblock printing.
		Howard's technique of woodblock printing is exclusively the traditional Japanese method which she studied in Tokyo, Japan under Master Hodaka Yoshida.
	www.darylhoward.com /techniques (250 words)

	B & C ANTIQUES Vintage Arts,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese,Woodblock Prints Directory
		This later woodblock edition of Hasui’s classic print illustrates the bright vermillion gate of the temple, large and angled, with a pine tree in the foreground.
		He was the first woodblock print artist to be honored by the Japanese government with the prestigious title of “Living National Treasure.” Hasui’s work is in the permanent collections of the leading museums of the world.
		Japanese woodblock print by Koitsu Tsuchiya (1870-1949) entitled “Sacred Bridge in Nikko.” Originally published in 1937; margin is dated “Showa 12.” Later Hama impression posthumously printed from Koitsu’s original blocks.
	www.bandcantiques.com /catalog/Vintage_Arts:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Woodblock_Prints.html (2138 words)

	Articles: What are woodblock prints?
		Each color of a woodblock print must be carved as a separate block and printed one at a time.
		The woodblock printing technique begins with the artist who creates the image and designs the colors for the print.
		Each woodblock print is the product of anywhere from two to sixty individual wood blocks, all individually carved.
	www.robynbuntin.com /Articles/woodblockfaq.htm (364 words)

	Bibliography of Woodblock Printmaking
		If you are at all interested in Japanese woodblock printmaking, order this book immediately, if for no other reason than to see the many interesting illustrations showing different kinds of prints, tools and materials.
		Despite my past frustrations at the shallowness of the information, I must admit that he wasn't trying to write the ultimate guide to printmaking, but was just intending to promote interest in his passion.
		Although he seems to have had a good personal grasp of the woodblock techniques, most of his prints were made by professional craftsmen working under his supervision.
	barenforum.org /encyclopedia/entries/003_01/capsules.html (1518 words)

	Bulgarian Printmakers: Woodcut Print Artists
		The real beginning of Bulgarian woodblock prints is in the middle of 19th century, during the national revival period when the foundations of Bulgarian culture were laid.
		Two formal trends; appear in the graphic works of the Revival periods, which are patriotic and educational in content: a striving to imitate ‘academic’ European drawing, and the continuation of the old Bulgarian “style of painting”; the second is the better and more skillfully manifested in woodcuts.
		The characteristic features of contemporary Bulgarian woodblock prints are free development of creative personalities, individual styles and idioms, new plastic quests, variety in technical interpretation, and the turning to new problems and contemporary themes.
	www.1000woodcuts.com /invitedartists/bulgaria/bulgariawoodcuts.html (473 words)

	Teaching East Asia: Woodblock Prints Lesson Suggestion
		Each color in a woodblock print is made from an individual block.
		Many woodblock prints from this period, and from CU's TEA collection depict kabuki theatre, which often focuses on love and tragedy.
		Japanese woodblock prints are noted for their detail.
	www.colorado.edu /CAS/TEA/printlesson.html (240 words)

	Chinese Woodblock Prints
		However woodblock prints were not regarded as an art form of its own.
		They had a strong influence on Chinese woodblock prints at that time, and many prints in fl and white were created with subjects expressing criticism of society and social order.
		Today, in a lively and politically relaxed art scene, woodblock prints are an art form practised in various forms: either with oil or with watery colors, and with several different registration systems.
	www.artelino.com /articles/chinese-woodblock-prints.asp (1110 words)

	Reduction Woodblock Print
		One of them is Andrea Rich, an internationally recognized woodblock printmaker from Santa Cruz in California.
		While the "reduction linocuts" could be basically done by a child, the application of the same principle to a woodblock is a challenging task that requires professional skill, long experience and a careful planning of the whole process in advance.
		At the end of this process, the woodblock is reduced to the modest remains used to print the last color.
	www.artelino.com /articles/reduction-woodblock-print.asp (993 words)

	eBay Guides - All About Carol Summers Master of Woodblock Prints
		Initially trained as a painter, he was drawn to color woodcuts or woodblocks as they are more widely known around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter.
		Internationally recognized, the woodblock prints of Carol Summers are in the permanent collection of virtually every major museum in the world including MOMA, the Met, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, in prestigious Kunstmuseums throughout Europe as well as in many others around the world.
		In opening remarks at the stand-room-only exhibition openings, Summers would tell the audience that speakeasies, flappers and the Charleston were the rage when he saw primary colors for the first time in the small town of Kingston in upstate New York in December of 1925 when he was born.
	reviews.ebay.com /All-About-Carol-Summers-Master-Woodcut-Printmaker_W0QQugidZ10000000000734064 (1832 words)

	Popular Collectibles, Cultural, Japanese, Woodblock Prints on Trocadero
		Limited edition, Japanese woodblock print by Kunio Kaneko titled "White White Tree." The print is signed Kunio Kaneko in pencil.
		A charming photograph derived in style from 19th Century master, Ando Hiroshige’s “53 Stations of Tokkaido” woodcuts published in 1832 because it is one of those stations (as the back of the card eruditely...
		This cardsized woodblock print by Hodaka Yoshida is not titled nor dated.
	www.trocadero.com /directory/Popular_Collectibles:Cultural:Japanese:Woodblock_Prints40.html (528 words)

	Fremont Ellis Landscapes and Gustave Baumann Woodblock Prints
		The "Golden Age" of the woodblock was 1450-1550 during which period artists perfected this medium for use in illustrations.
		Shortly thereafter, woodblock printing was replaced by copperplate engraving and etching which afforded the artisan greater flexibility of line.
		In producing a woodblock print from an original watercolor, Baumann carved separate wood blocks for every color to be printed, usually five or six colors for each print.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/3aa/3aa342.htm (927 words)

	HyperMusic -- Musical Instruments: Woodblock
		The woodblock is a hollow block of wood that is hit with a wooden stick or mallet.
		Woodblocks can come in sets (templeblocks), with blocks of different sizes to give higher and lower pitches.
		Strike the blocks on the top center of each block, using the same down-up motion you use when playing wood block or mallet percussion instruments.
	www.hypermusic.ca /inst/woodblock.html (178 words)

	Traces and Traditions: Vietnamese Woodblock Prints
		Traces and Traditions follows the evolution of woodblock printmaking from early impressions by Vietnamese ethnic minorities, to historic Buddhist images and texts, to traditional Dong Ho folk prints, to the work of five leading contemporary printmakers working in Vietnam today.
		Traces and Traditions: Vietnamese Woodblock Prints complements a concurrent exhibition Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit, a collaboration between the American Museum of Natural History and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi.
		Chinese characters fill an outline of the human form and are used by by fortune tellers to identify ailments.
	www.ipcny.org /exhib/exhib_ex/exhib_ex_vietnam.htm (434 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Japanese Woodblock Prints
		As a result the woodblock print process emerged as a collaboration of the artist, block cutter, printer, and publisher.
		The best site for reviewing a variety of woodblock prints from the 1600s to the 1800s is maintained by the Nagoya Broadcast Network.
		In the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s, European artists were highly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints. Their paintings and prints show Japanese-inspired color, shapes, and subject matter.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/3419 (1655 words)

	Mary Brodbeck - woodblock prints
		I teach the principles and traditions of Japanese woodblock printmaking in 2 day workshops – 12 week courses.
		Demonstrations include transferring design to woodblock, registration, carving, applying inks, and printing.
		The printing inks are water based, brushes are used for the application of inks, and a baren used for burnishing.
	www.marybrodbeck.com /workshop/workshop.htm (331 words)

	Galleries Antiques,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese,Woodblock Prints Directory
		A graceful bijin (beauty) woodblock print by the 18th century artist Kiyomine Torii (1787 - 1868), a pupil and grandson of Torii Kiyonaga of Edo (Tokyo).
		This is a gorgeous Japanese woodblock print by the 19th century master Chikanobu (1838-1912).
		Seal mark of artist and of woodblock carver (unusual to have carver's seal).
	www.oldgalleries.com /catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Woodblock_Prints.html?referrer=tuilleries (970 words)

	Woodblock Workshop
		We promise this in not a formal affair.
		Graham Scholes has taught watercolours and Woodblock Printmaking at hundreds of workshops in centres across Canada for 20 years and published a book "Watercolor and How" by Watson Guptill.
		Graham has been creating woodblock prints for 12 years using his knowledge of transparent pigments to create a body of work that has hung side by side with the renown printmaker Walter J Phillips 1884 - 1964.
	woodblock.info /bootcamp (334 words)

	Chinese Art and Folk Art
		According to researchers, most of the early Chinese woodblock prints were used as illustrations in books; the art reached a development peak in the Ming Dynasty.
		Zhao Yannian's woodblock art is inspired by the New Chinese Woodblock Print Movement and reflects the past 50 years of China's social history.
		China 5000 Years: Modern Generations: Woodblock Be sure to check Graphics, too.
	www.princetonol.com /groups/iad/lessons/middle/china.htm (1201 words)

	Japanese Woodblock Prints
		Thank them for inviting you to their school and tell them that the next time they will see you will be at the Nickle Arts Museum.
		Remind them that certain images contain visual cues that “push” the viewer in one direction or another (dark colours create a somber mood; choppy, jagged lines create a feeling of unease; geometric shapes have a mechanical, technological feel to them; areas of deep shading convey a sense of mystery; etc.).
		They will then use fl water-based ink to ink their compositions (if needed, ink may be prepared with 25% clear dish soap as a release agent).
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/NAM/RTI/japan.htm (1292 words)

	DFN Gallery: Keiji Shinohara - New Paintings & Woodblock Prints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Though Shinohara employs ancient methods in creating his woodblock prints, he also diverges from tradition by experimenting with ink application and different materials to add texture to his prints.
		He personally executes all the steps involved in the printmaking process, from carving the woodblock to printing by hand.
		Intrigued by the possibility of surprise in creating his prints, Shinohara responds to the process organically, negotiating with the material and the inherent characteristics of the wood.
	www.artnet.com /event/68990/Keiji_Shinohara_-_New_Paintings__Woodblock_Prints.html (519 words)

	ArtLex on Woodcuts
		block of wood, also called a woodblock print.
		The ink is transferred from the raised surfaces to paper.
		Untitled, 1952, color woodblock (red, fl and white), image 21.7 x 15.1 cm, sheet 21.8 x 15.1 cm inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/wxyz/woodcut.html (715 words)

	Woodblock.com - Opening Page
		After many years of thinking about it, I have finally opened a woodblock print publishing venture - Mokuhankan.
		English printmaker John Platt died in 1967, leaving behind a collection of 40 woodblock prints.
		A unique combination of two traits - he was both a thorough and meticulous craftsman and a man with a 'vision' - placed him in a unique position in the history of woodblock printmaking.I hope you will enjoy seeing his work, which deserves much wider attention.
	www.woodblock.com (648 words)

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