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Chinese Woodblock Prints - links

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From: Judy Decker (jdecker_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 09:16:10 PST

I am interested in Chinese woodblock prints so I did some surfing. With
Chinese New Year approaching, I thought I would share. Chinese New Year is
February 1 - year of the Sheep
(http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar.htm ). Often New Year's prints
were hung as decoration.

"Traditional Chinese woodblock printing was first engraved or overlaid on
wood and then printed on paper. The first wood engraving was made in 868 in
the Chinese Tang Dynasty and it was named The Lonely Tree. According to
researchers, most of the early Chinese woodblock prints were used as
illustrations in books; the art reached a development peak in the Ming
Dynasty. Since then woodblock printing has been used to make New Year
painting. With the adoption of metal printing and some new printing
technology, woodblock printing gradually declined....."
http://home.seechina.com.cn/html/arts/2xxbh-e.html

Half a Century of Chinese Prints

http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/exhibits/00_01/chinesewoodblock/

Chinese New Year Pictures

http://www.seu.edu.cn/art/english/enga1.htm

Keep on clicking "more" at the bottom for paper cuts, textiles, weaving,
silhouettes for shadow play, ceramics...toys.architecture
http://www.seu.edu.cn/art/english/ehome.htm (home page)

Chinese New Year Prints - Door God Deities

http://www.c-c-c.org/ex/doorgod.html

http://www.c-c-c.org/ex/paperjoss.html

Meanings in Chinese Folks Art

http://www.c-c-c.org/ex/folkart.html

Popular prints (New Year)

http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~fs35e/

slides
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/imagebase/carousel?name=fs35e

Gems of the New Year- exhibition from Shanghai Library

http://library.ust.hk/info/exhibit/newyear/ny-eng.html

Info - New Year /methods

http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/uag/Past-Exhibitions/Chinese-Woodblock-Prints/Nain
hua.htm

http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/uag/Past-Exhibitions/Chinese-Woodblock-Prints/Wood
Block-Printmaking.htm (or http://makeashorterlink.com/?G47421123 )

Info- Chinese wood block print (link to catalog doesn't work)

http://www.asia-art.net/chinese_wood.html

Modern woodcut artist
http://www.cloudband.com/frames.mhtml/magazine/articles4q00/exh_daines_asiac
ontemp_1000.html or http://makeashorterlink.com/?D17641023

Modern Chinese Woodblock prints

http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/gug/indxs/mod/modwood.html

Be sure to check Graphics too

http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/gug/indxs/mod/modgraphdes.html

intro http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/gug/intr/modintro.html

Modern Chinese woodcuts

http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/graph/9polwood.htm

Fifty Years of Chinese Woodblock Prints

http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/exhb/past/fifty1.html

catalog still available http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/cats/1999fifty.html

Bai woodblock prints - (small folk prints)

http://www.art-pacific.com/artifacts/china/baiprint.htm

Chinese printing method

http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/012_04/012_04.html

Contemporary printmaker Qijia Dawa

http://china.tyfo.com/int/art/artists/qjde/qjde.htm

Contemporary http://www.newchineseart.com/woodcuts.htm

Compare to Japanese prints (lots online!!!)

http://www.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/

http://www.cjn.or.jp/ukiyo-e/

How Japanese Prints are made

http://www.japanprints.com/misc/HowPrintsMade.htm

http://www.woodblock.com/encyclopedia/outline.html

FYI -- Middle/ High School teachers might want to check out Jean Eger's
Printmaking links http://users.lmi.net/~jeaneger/hotlinks.html

This is just the tip of the iceberg ..lots more online for contemporary
prints try searching Chinese woodcuts and woodblock prints .. And more if
you look for Chinese printmaking.

(some background http://www.artmondo.net/printworks/articles/china.htm )

Enjoy!

Judy Decker

P.S. I have lots of quality links to art and history of China for anyone who
is interested. I will send via attachment. 

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