Sentences with phrase «woodblock print dates»

The Japanese woodblock print dates back to the...

This example of shunga (a genre of erotic woodblock prints dating back to the 9th Century) is significant not only for its shocking metaphor of victory in war --- it makes plain the sexual dimension of conquest --- but also that it signaled Japan's own imperial desires.

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Workshops see artist Tal R bring a fortune telling tent and woodblock printing studio to the Art Gallery, so that weekend visitors can watch as magenta prints are created, and a two - day Spiritual Speed Dating event whereby leading figures from various religions, lifestyles and teachings discuss spirituality, creativity and rituals.

Highlights include: a unique collection of Asian ceramics from Japan, China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar; sculptural masterpieces such as the magnificent Japanese Amida Nyorai, the Sino - Tibetan White and the Jain Shri Mallinath and Vijayanagara period Siva nataraja from India; craftworks like the Javanese ninth - century Kala and Batak Mortuary puppet (si gale gale); a definitive collection of Indian textiles dating from 1350s to the 19th century; ukiyo - e woodblock prints like the Thirty - six views of Edo by Utagawa Hiroshige; plus rare objects such as a Celestial globe (1780 — 81), and a heterodox Mughal portrait of Prophet Muhammad riding the bouraq steed.

Fascinated to explore new ways of creating texture, Milhazes masterfully mixes silkscreen and woodblock techniques in these new works, her largest prints to date.

Japanese School, 20th Century Seven Abstract Works: Sprout, signed and dated «Yamada Tetsuo 1960» l.r., woodblock print, sheet size 22 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.; a silk textile after Insho Domoto; and More...