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Van Gogh and the Influence of Japanese Art

Van Gogh oil painting (1887) After U.S. naval commander Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor and coerced the ...

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The Evolution of Color in Japanese Woodblock Printing

By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim Originally Japanese ukiyo-e prints were simple reproductions of black and white line drawings. Then early ...

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How Japanese Printmaking Influenced Western Art

By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim For centuries the Japanese shoguns enforced isolationism in their country. That does not mean ...

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What are Ukiyo-e Prints?

By Jim ...

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How do Woodblocks, Woodcuts and Wood Engravings Differ?

By Jim Hingst @hingst_jim In discussing relief printing with blocks of wood, three similar terms used are often ...

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The Division of Labor in Ancient Japanese Print Production

By Jim Hingst The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Japanese artist Hokusai c. 1830. (Public domain, via Wikimedia ...

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Japanese Carving Tools for Woodblock Relief Printing

By Jim Hingst Photo A You won’t need many tools to start carving woodblock panels for relief printing. ...

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