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Thursday, March 28, 2024


Exhibition Public - Europe & Africa

Creative impression: Japanese woodblock prints from the 1950s-60s

Östasiatiska Museet
Tyghusplan, 111,
Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 27, 2017 To Dec 31, 2017


Detail: In the permanent Japan exhibition at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, objects and images tell a story of the country's history and peoples. There is also a gallery that gives visitors a unique opportunity to create smaller displays of light-sensitive and fragile items that can only be exhibited for a limited time.

For six months, we have placed a small selection of woodcut from the 1950s to 1960s on view. These are the kind commonly known as "creative prints" (sōsaku hanga). This type of woodcut is especially known from the early 1900s to the 1960s.

In the majority of the production of woodblock prints, artists collaborated with publishers, printers and wood block carvers; and the artist participated in the design. Artists in the "creative print" movement, however, often often carved, and sometimes even printed, their own works. Many of them use the woodcut technique in a personal and expressive way. Usually, sōsaku hanga-artists are educated in Western art techniques and sometimes work with Western printing techniques. Several have been successful in overseas, especially in America. Some work abstract, others imaginative. Sōsaku hanga-artists' pictures are borne out of Japanese culture, but are equally part of the global art world, sometimes strikingly contemporary.

In this exhibition it is now is possible to see works by famous artists such as Maki Haku (1924-2000), Ryuji Kosaka (1912-1972) and Saitō Kiyoshi (1907-1997).

Phone No.: 010-456 12 97
Site URL: http://www.varldskulturmuseerna.se/en/ostasiatiskamuseet/exhibitions/current-exhibition/creative-impression-japanese-woodblock-prints-from-the-1950s-60s/

Ryuji Kosaka (1912-1972): Bamboo
Ryuji Kosaka (1912-1972): Bamboo
1962
Woodcut

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