Woodcut

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS #2 IDENTIFY: The second artwork I have chosen to analyze is “The Last Supper,” by a German woodcut artist named Albrecht Durer located in the private Martin Luther Collection at the MIA. Durer was born in 1471 and died in 1528, he made this artwork in 1523. (Object Label, Target Gallery Ticketed Exhibition) The medium is woodcut, woodcut is “A relief printing technique in which the printing surface is carved with special tools in a solid block of wood. The wood is cut longitudinally from the tree so the grain runs the length of the block. The block is cut and then inked with a brayer or dabber. The paper is then placed on the block and the whole thing is run through a press or rubbed over by a baren or the bowl of a large…

Utagawa Hiroshige I created Hamamatsu: Winter Scene in the Edo period (1833-34) using the medium of woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Specifications include: dimensions of 9 in. x 14 in. and a landscape orientation, as showcased in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, U.K. The piece depicts a wintry rural scene on the outskirts of Hamamatsu station. The village and Hamamatsu Castle are visible in the distance. Porters warm themselves by a bonfire while another traveler looks on, pipe in hand,…

guilt to her grief (Schulte 193-194). She decides that it is her responsibility to make a memorial for him. She envisions a sculpture with her son standing over his parents, his arms outstretched like wings. However, she never found a satisfactory design for the piece, abandoning and returning to it over and over again throughout many years (Kollwitz 63). She completes other projects during this period as well including the Krieg (War) cycle, a series of woodcuts that show the dark realities…

Tugboat Printshop is owned by Pennsylvanian husband and wife team Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth and they are woodblock master craftsmen. Together they produce original, extremely detailed woodblock prints. Each print that is created from a woodblock is unique. Their style that they use is very intricate with elaborate designs and shapes that add texture to the medium. I really enjoy all of their artwork but I am drawn to the Moth that is pictured below. It measures 16 x 21 inches. Woodblock…

Li Hua was an influential artist, and his work plays a vital part in the new woodcut movement which illustrated the social context of China in the 1930s. Li Hua also is Lu xun’s friend, and he said Lu Xun is the father of a revolutionary woodcut movement. One of his woodcut Lu Xun und Kakichi Uchiyama in August depicted Lu xun’s role in the woodcut movement. (figure 4) This is one of the early work of the Li Hua which capture a moment of Luxun in the new woodcut movement. On this painting, Lu…

Hokusai’s woodcut began as the optimus prime of his thirty-six piece series of woodcuts: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. His piece began as a simple drawing that was attached to a slate of cherry wood which was then carved away until the initial drawing was left in the block. This was done several times, once for each color and then for the line work. The woodblocks where inked, pressed against the printing paper individually, and then the back of the paper was rubbed with a tool called a baren…

In the end chapter of Bible, the Revelation talked about the God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. The lamb of god brings the first four of the seven seals. They are represented by the four horse. The four riders were seen as a symbol of conquest, War, Famine and death. “Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and…

In the world of printmaking, the relief print is the most well known and commonly used form throughout the centuries. In relief printmaking, the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are raised while the remaining areas are cut away. The oldest kind of relief prints are woodcuts, where a (smooth) block of wood is used as the medium. Woodcut does not offers very little in the way of color, so most artists have to work in black and white only. If an artist wants to add color, he/she needs…

printing press. Through new means of communication, Luther’s ideas were able to be understood by everyone not just university academics but also illiterate commoners. As Luther’s ideas became more popular and spread further, a new form of communication was used to tell those that couldn’t read Luther’s work. These were in the form of woodcuts which were images carved into wood and printed onto paper. As no more than 10% of the German population were literate, Luther relied on these woodcuts to…

the similarities end. Passionate Journey is a celebrated work that was revolutionary in how it was comprised simply of pictures but is still today considered as literary art and is respected by many as well as an inspiration to many more. It is a story of life, death, self-discovery, and purpose that everyone in some way can relate to. The sharp woodcut style is edgy and the boldness of it brings the deep emotions to the forefront of the mind when reading it. In a very different way Superman…