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Art – Ms. Crump. Printmaking and Ukiyo -e. Types of Printmaking. Relief – ink on a raised surface Woodcut Linoleum cut Intaglio –ink is below the surface E tching Stencil – ink is pushed through a film template or pattern Screen printing or serigraphy
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Art – Ms. Crump Printmaking and Ukiyo-e
Types of Printmaking • Relief – ink on a raised surface • Woodcut • Linoleum cut • Intaglio –ink is below the surface • Etching • Stencil – ink is pushed through a film template or pattern • Screen printing or serigraphy • Planographic – plate surface is chemically treated
Woodcut Printing • Earliest printing technique • Only method traditionally used in East Asia • Originated from China • Oldest example are fragments of silk from Han Dynasty (before year 220 CE) • Woodcut images on paper introduced in Europe in 1400s, slightly later in Japan
Ukiyo-e • Well-known Japanese woodblock printing genre produced from 17th-20th centuries • Ukiyo-e translated means “images of a floating world” • Motifs (subjects) include landscape and tales from history KikugawaEizan – “Sakura”
Ando Hiroshige • Lived from 1797-1858 • From Edo (Tokyo), Japan • Specialized in landscapes • "Hundred Famous Places of Edo“ • "Famous Views of the Eastern City“ • "Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido", which depict scenes along the old imperial highway from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto.
Hiroshige Number 11 from “Fifty-Three Sages of the Tokaido”
Hiroshige Number 16 “Evening Snow at Kanbara”
Hiroshige Number 29 is the Tenryu River, west of Mitsuke
Hiroshige From “One-hundred Views of Famous Places of Edo” Jumbo plain at Suzaki, Fukagawa and the Bridge at Awate
Hiroshige “Wild Duck and Reeds in Snow", “A White Heron and Iris", “A Long-tailed Blue Bird on a Blooming Plum Branch" and “Sparrow, Moon, and Peach Blossoms",
Katsushika Hokusai • Lived from October or November 1760 – May 10, 1849 • From Edo (Tokyo), Japan • Specialized in landscapes • Famous for his series “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”
Hokusai “The Great Wave of Kanagawa”
Hokusai “Red Fuji”
Hokusai Tago Bay near Ejiri on the Tokaido
Hokusai Mount Fuji Reflected on Water at Misaka in Kai Province
Hokusai Inume Pass in Kai Province
Hokusai A Shower Below the Summit
Kitagawa Utamaro • Lived from 1753 - October 31, 1806 • May have been born in Edo (Tokyo), Kyoto, or Osaka • Well known for his prints of women, known as bijinga
Utamaro “Dojouji” “A Beauty”
Utamaro “Flowers of Edo: Young Woman's Narrative Chanting to the Samisen." “Woman Wiping Sweat”