The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints has reproduced around 1,200 masterpieces by artists such as Hokusai and Utamaro. Brigitte Koyama-Richard, a researcher in Japanese fine arts from France, visited ...

Even if you don’t know his name, you probably have seen the work of woodcut print artist Gustave Baumann, whose landscapes have been used to embellish calendars, address books, posters, wallets and ...

An exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints, highlighting changing fashions and evolving print technologies in that country from the late 1600s through the mid-1800s, will run from Jan. 18 through June ...

Door God woodcut paintings are believed to be able to protect home in China. A centuries-old woodcut painting is coming to life thanks to Zhang Rongqiang's craftsmanship. The man in southwest China's ...

The printing blocks show includes relics of wood blocks for printing of sutras in the Western Xia (1038-1227) regime. [Photo by Deng Zhangyu / China Daily] Ancient books are today rare, but even rarer ...

Ugo da Carpi might not have had any formal training as an artist, but after about 1516 he had a profound impact on the course of Italian art for the next century. How? Ugo got a patent, or whatever ...

Out-of-print woodcut printing first started in Pu'er city, Yunnan province, in the 1980s and quickly rose in popularity creating a unique cultural heritage for the area. The difference between ...

The representation of time and the thematic concept of the human condition have long been subjects of intrigue for artists, philosophers and academics alike. Tempus Edax Rerum is an exhibition of ...

Xi Wang, a 29-year-old craftsman, hangs up a self-designed New Year picture depicting two cheerful kids and an adorable mouse on the wall of his room to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rat. As the ...

A woman visits an exhibition of Shizhuzhai woodblock at the provincial art museum in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, March 31, 2018. Over 100 pieces of woodblock printing works were displayed ...

Yangliuqing Woodblock Printing is one of the most prestigious forms of New Year decorations in China. 29-year-old Xi Wang has devoted himself to this art form. TIANJIN, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Xi Wang, a ...