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Woodcut/woodblock Printmaking
What is it & how is it done?
'Woodcut' and 'woodblock' are often used interchangeably to describe the same technique. Both refer to print matrices that use the side grain rather than the end grain of a wooden block. 'Wood engraving' is generally used to refer to a print matrix that uses the end grain.
Woodcut - A print made by cutting a design in
side-grain of a block of wood, also called a woodblock print. The
ink is transferred from the raised surfaces to paper.
Definition and numerous examples from
Artlex
This is an image
of a coloured woodcut by Wolf Drechsel of Nuremberg, showing the
northern lights
(aurora borealis) over Nuremberg on October 5, 1591. German
National Museum, Nuremberg.
chiaroscuro "The standard traditional type of western woodcut, often known as a 'chiaroscuro' woodcut, was produced in imitation of a monochrome drawing made on tinted paper and heightened with white bodycolour. The inks were shades of the same colour, and for this reason the term 'tone-block' rather than 'colour-block' is usually used when describing them. From Old Master Prints Technique
Image Map of Max Beckmann's Self-Portrait from the Spencer Museum of Art.
The Production of Japanese Woodblock Prints by J. Noel Chiappa
See also linked from the home page
The Development of the Woodblock
Printing Process
Woodblock Print Artists' Biographies
Painting Schools and Art-Names (Go)
Date Seals and the Japanese Calendar
Beginning Woodblock Collector's Bibliography
Glossary of Woodblock Print Terms
Zodiacal Calendar Date Seals
Nanushi Censor Seals
Utagawa Kunisada Print Series Cross-Reference
Print Series of Ando Hiroshige, in Edward Strange
Print Series of Ando Hiroshige, in Van Vleck
Hiroshige's '8 Snow Scenes of Tokyo'
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528, Man Drawing a Lute 1525
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Living Prints® Woodcut On-line Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) by Bill Ritchie
How to make colour woodblocks using Japanese kento registration by Jean Eger
TRADITIONAL ENGLISH PLAYING CARDS printed
from woodblocks and hand-coloured with stencils.
From the world of playing cards.
See also EARLY CHINESE PLAYING CARDS from Royal Ontario Museum
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet by Hans Olof Johansson
This has everything about Japanese woodblock printmaking
How to Information from Graham Scholes, Sharpening, Sharpening V gouge, Tie Baren, Hori-Dai Caving Bench, Cut a Kento, Carving Tools Uses, Get Pasted, Inking Brush, Hanga Tool Use, My WorkSpace
Viewing Japanese Prints This website offers an illustrated discussion of artists, subject matter, and printing techniques in an effort to explore various themes in the field of Japanese prints.
www.woodcut.de about woodblocks (in German)
Felluga, Dino. "The Dürer Woodcut: Postmodernism." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760-1849)
South Wind, Clearing Skies, from the series Thirty-six Views of
Mt. Fuji, ca. 1829-33
color woodblock print 10 1/16 x 14 7/8 in. (25.5 x 38 cm)
Examples of Woodcut Printmakers
Connecticut College presents Albrecht Durer's woodcuts and engravings
Hokusai (1760-1849)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Helen Hyde, American Printmaker
The Days of the Dead and Mexican Printmaker Jose
Guadalupe Posada
By Amy Scott Metcalfe
Walter J Phillips (1884-1963) Canadian watercolourist and woodcut artist
Grace Albee: An American Printmaker, 1890-1985
Other Sites
"CHATS" on Japanese Prints, message board from Shogun Gallery Inc
UKIYO-E Q & A, message board from UKIYO-E The Pictures of the Floating World
The Woodcut as a Social Communicator from A Gift to Biro-Bidjan: Chicago, 1937
From Despair to New Hope
Horácio O. Soares-Neto Woodcuts from Brazil
Print Australia | Studio Dalwood
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last edited on
07 January, 2003
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