These prints focused on picturing landscapes and natures, city life, actors, wrestlers. The Floating World refers to the idea of impermenance or fleeting beauty. Adjust the outline width, strength and how smooth or fluid your chiseled outline appears. Hokusai was an artist in the middle of the Ukiyo-e or Pictures of the Floating World period of printmaking in Japan that lasted from the Early 1600’s until about 1900. Maybe that’s why these objects are, after all, very different from mass-produced Sears catalogues: slower is sometimes better. Moku Hanga Features: Automatically create a work of art with the look of hand chiseled outlines and brushed on color, fully adjustable with simple sliders. Another thing I discovered at this exhibition is that even though faster methods of production were available to Japanese designers in the late nineteenth century (such as engraved or lithographic reproduction), they still produced these commercial books through the extremely time-consuming moku hanga method. There is also an intriguing card of brightly-colored woolen circles, which turn out to be color samples, each one with its particular formula written in pen and ink beside it. The items on display range from landscape and nature scenes to decorative arrangements of plant motifs, some of them influenced by Japanese contact with Art Deco and Art Nouveau movements in Europe. She thought it was like someone collecting old Sears catalogues.” “Even a Japanese friend of mine, whose family was involved in the design business for hundreds of years, asked me why I wanted to collect all this stuff. The final print will be on a whiter paper than this test paper. Here is a test print of the first block, printed twice, first with blue and then with a grey-brown gradation. I was going to include a keyline, but I like it better without.
Work made by residents of Lyme, New Hampshire & Thetford, Vermont. Moku hanga print 5 blocks, 6 layers of color. “There really hasn’t been interest in it until recently,” Pevtzow said. Fine Art & Crafts, Books, Jewelry, Pottery, Woodenware and Woodblock Prints. It is curious why this material hasn’t been exhibited more often. Arabesque patterns, mid nineteenth century, woodblock printed book and ink on paper ( click to enlarge)
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