This was in "Art Made Modern: Roger Fry's Vision of Art", and it captivated me -
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| Andre Derain, 1914, Picasso's House at Avignon |
Or you're looking for something specific on the internet, and scroll and scroll ... then rather than finding what you were looking for, something else marvellous appears ...
This was in among a search for Japanese woodblock printing tools -
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| Negishi Japan, 1916, by Charles W Bartlett |
Or you have a quick look at a short video and one thing leads to another and you find yourself watching a whole series...
... for instance the woodblock cutting and printing videos by David Bull, especially the "Ukiyo-e heroes - taking favourite video game heroes and putting them back in the ukiyo-e style" and the Great Wave series - they are available here -
you know when you posted this yesterday I was out buying various woodblock printing supplies!!
ReplyDeleteand have a look at this - very inspiring video by a Scottish printmaker trained in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtqQCoUx564
and this is his website http://www.paulfurneaux.com/