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10 years ago
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So this pirate is totally stoked!
I am an art history NUT (it's actually one of my majors for anyone who cares) and I just got asked to join this group to go view Japanese Wood Prints from one of my art history teachers. My friend in the class said that she could drive me down there to be a part of handling the prints.
Guys! I am so excited I literally am bouncing up and down.
These are JAPANESE prints OLD Japanese prints. I WILL BE TOUCHING HISTORY!
I totally forgot my Nikon at home over Spring Break (I went to a Viking Exhibit with my dad xD) so I won't be able to take -as- good of pictures as I would like but I will try and see what I can get if anything worth while to toss up from the museum itself. I doubt I will be able to take pictures when handling the prints (nor would I really want to). But I will also be going to the museum with the art history group at my school the following day.
May 1st needs to get here sooner~!
I hope all of you lovely people are having a fantastic life and a beautiful Friday's Eve!
I am an art history NUT (it's actually one of my majors for anyone who cares) and I just got asked to join this group to go view Japanese Wood Prints from one of my art history teachers. My friend in the class said that she could drive me down there to be a part of handling the prints.
Guys! I am so excited I literally am bouncing up and down.
These are JAPANESE prints OLD Japanese prints. I WILL BE TOUCHING HISTORY!
I totally forgot my Nikon at home over Spring Break (I went to a Viking Exhibit with my dad xD) so I won't be able to take -as- good of pictures as I would like but I will try and see what I can get if anything worth while to toss up from the museum itself. I doubt I will be able to take pictures when handling the prints (nor would I really want to). But I will also be going to the museum with the art history group at my school the following day.
May 1st needs to get here sooner~!
I hope all of you lovely people are having a fantastic life and a beautiful Friday's Eve!
I more than likely will just be shaking and jumping around like a kid in a candy shop.
it's also in a pretty nice city and there's this place that I LOVE to buy rings from so *tosses money in the air*
I'm a pirate.
We don't go overboard. ;]
I'd definitely be excited to see any pictures you can get of the prints! OuO May is a-comin'!
And I might not be able to get pictures of the prints that I handle but I will be taking pictures of the prints I see on display in the gallery! :D
I hope you have a blast~ I'll have to look into finding some things like that around us to get to go see sometime, maybe some inspiration like that would help me get out of this writing slump I'm in. \3
Thank you! And dooooo it. It's always nice to go gallery hunting or museum hunting and just going around.
Writing is a hard one....I'm still trying to get a writing muse back.
weeps
that is literally one of my dreams so im really happy <3
It would be a fuckin blast!
One day!
Scrolls were painted not printed.
Know you stuff!
They're Japanese Wood Block Prints they are normally printed on rice paper. They are carved out of wood (normally from oak) and the ink is rolled on. Each color is a different block. The black lines that turn into the 'outline' of the print is printed from the Key Block and that is normally printed on top. Each block is carved separately and if the prints do not line up the whole piece is off. ALSO, Japanese prints were not rolled through printing presses like Western prints. The paper is placed on top of the inked matrix and they are hand pressed using a simple tool.
Japanese paintings are done in the Chinese style of brush and ink. Normally done on paper or silk depending on who the commissioner is. During the Kamakura period Japan opened up their gates to China again and the Zen Buddhist monks flocked over Chinese Zen Painting (which oddly enough the Chinese hated). During the Murayama period the Japanese also decided to turn their back on doing as many hand scrolls and hanging scrolls because it was a Chinese format. They ended up inventing two new formats: the byobu (folding screens) and fusuma (sliding door panels).
And to be fair, the Japanese prints are -anything- but simplistic when it comes to technique.
White spaces is also a Chinese thing. It's part of their painting style. Blank paper is supposed to represent water, mist/fog. Sometimes it is used as abstract space if it is dealing with figure content.
So if anything. It seems like you are referring to Chinese painters, not Japanese printers or painters.