The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art debuted “Bird and Blossom,” an exhibition of woodblock prints depicting simple ...

Frank Brangwyn was an English former apprentice of William Morris, while Yoshijiro Urushibara was an expert Japanese woodblock artist. In the early part of the 20th century, they made prints together ...

Image credit: Utagawa Kuniaki II, 1835 - 1888 (Japanese), Ōzumō Keiko no zu [Professional Sumo Wrestlers Practicing], 1866, woodcut on paper, 13 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Gift of Special Collections, Norlin ...

The Yōkai drawings inspired the Impressionist artists as well as the cartoons and video games that we interact with today. Read more here.

A new groundbreaking exhibition in Tokyo features iconic works by the legendary Japanese woodblock print artist Katsushika Hokusai. Visitors can step into Hokusai's famous depiction of a great wave in ...

The Mercury covers culture & art because we think all its various forms are—quite plainly—how people understand one another.

There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...