Mara Cozzolino - is a mokuhanga artist, based in Turin, Italy. It is held every two years and is themed. More info can be found, here. International Mokuhanga Conference - is a conference conducted by the International Mokuhanga Association for Japanese woodblock printing. Her interview with The Unfinished Print can be found, here. Her book Japanese Woodblock Printing is a classic of the genre. She is the President of The Royal Academy of Arts, London. Rebecca Salter - is a British artist who focused on mokuhanga early in her career, and painting in later life. Artists such as Andy Warhol (1928-1987), and Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) are well known pop-artists. Pop art - is a an art movement generally connected to post war America and commodification. It lasted as this distinct style until its innevitable decline after the Second World War (1939-1945). From there shin-hanga evolved into its own distinct “new” style of Japanese woodblock printing. Shin hanga was born in 1915 by Watanabe Shōzaburō (1885-1962) when he found Austrian artist Frtiz Capelari (1884-1950) and commissioned Capelari to design some prints for Watanabe's feldgling printing house. Focusing on the foreign demand for “traditional” Japanese imagery and motifs such as castles, bridges, famous landscapes, bamboo forests, to name just a few. Shin hanga - is a style of Japanese woodblock printmaking which began during the end of the Ukiyo-e period of Japanese printmaking, in the early 20th Century.
Lithography - is a printing process which requires a stone or aluminum plate, and was invented in the 18th Century. By using watercolours on washi, Kunio creates beautiful postcards which lend a hand to the ephemeral nature of the season and the medium. Although, sending postcards on New Years has been a tradition in Japan since the 700’s.
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His company, Mokuhankan, has promoted the making of mokuhanga via the hanmoto or collaboration system of making woodblock prints, where the image begins as a black and white copy, evolving into a multi-layered colour woodblock print through a series of designers, carvers, and printmakers.Įtegami - meaning image letter, etegami is a style of calligraphy which was created by Kokei Kunio in the 1960’s, by writing his own distinct style of calligraphy on New Years postcards. Her book, Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop, is a classic of the genre and a fantastic instructional book to begin mokuhanga.Īndrew's wine label prints - here is one such print Andrew describes in his interview.ĭavid Bull/Mokuhankan - David Bull is a Canadian mokuhanga printmaker and business owner based in the city and Prefecture of Tōkyō, Japan. She has been working in the medium for over thirty years. Simply click on the highlighted word or phrase.Īpril Vollmer - is a mokuhanga artist based in New York City.
Please follow The Unfinished Print and my own mokuhanga work on Instagram or email me at may contain a hyperlink. We discuss his philosophies on mokuhanga and baren making, what it takes to make such a beautiful tool like the baren, and how they function and work. We speak about his Florence Baren Project, his own mokuhanga, his life in Italy, his meeting with baren maker Hidehiko Gotō. On this episode of The Unfinished Print, I speak with mokuhanga printmaker and baren maker Andrew Stone. His exploration into what makes mokuhanga, mokuhanga, is fascinating and important. For Andrew Stone that journey began at the age of 40, where in the last fifteen years or so, Andrew has done a deep dive into the nuances of the art form, from technique, to tools. One can begin that journey at any age, at any time. One's mokuhanga journey takes many twists and turns.
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