"With minimal shadows and colors, the artist effectively transforms the image into a peaceful universe that recalls Japanese woodblock prints."

this week's Artist Spotlight on arts, ink.:
Maria Medem’s Tranquil Scenes for Hectic Times
https://t.co/JjxNGTIIMq

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Woodblock printing of texts was developed in China around the 2nd century, and soon reached unparalleled sophistication, not just in China, but in Korea and Japan as well. Around 1300 years later, attempts at the same thing were made in the West, but without lasting success.

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Autumn Moon Over Tama River, ca. 1838
Utagawa Hiroshige
print, Ink and color on paper

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チャールズ・ウィリアム・バートレット - Udaipur - India
Charles William Bartlett


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Japanese woodblock print but make it halszkaraptor
(WIP)
Been wanting to do this for a while, I just adore Japanese woodblock prints so I wanted to adopt that visual style into a paleoart piece

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Tonight's goodnight image is 'Winter Sunset' by Émile Antoine Verpilleux, colour print from woodblocks, printed in 1928.
Sleep tight.

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Artwork: Kyō-ganoko Musume Dōjō-ji
Artist: Utagawa Kunisada (歌川 国貞)
Date: 1852
Style: Edo period (1603-1867)
Genre: Ukiyo-e
Media: Color woodblock print
Dimensions: 35.8 x 49.5 cm
Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), Minneapolis, MA, US

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Artwork: The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎)
Date: c.1829-1833
Style: Edo period (1603-1867)
Genre: Ukiyo-e
Media: Color woodblock print
Dimensions: 25.7 x 37.8 cm
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US

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Waves by Uehara Konen 上原古年 (1877-1940)

Similar to the Great Wave off Kanagawa, these are woodblock prints

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Artwork: No. 2, from the series Modern Versions of the Five Women
Artist: Keisai Eisen (渓斎 英泉)
Date: 1835
Style: Edo period (1603-1867)
Genre: Bijin-ga; Ukiyo-e
Media: Color woodblock print
Dimensions: 37.2 x 24.8 cm
Location: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA, US

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Artwork: Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaido: Warabi, Inuyama Dosetsu
Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi (歌川 國芳)
Date: 1852
Style: Edo period (1603-1867)
Genre: Ukiyo-e
Media: Color woodblock print
Dimensions: 36.8 x 25.4 cm
Location: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC, US

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