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Keiji Shinohara is a present-day master printer who was trained and raised in Japan. The best part of the process of printmaking is the inherent surprises. Until you pull back the piece of paper you don’t know what your image will come out looking like. There is a negotiation between the paper and the material. The artist has limited control over how the image turns out, the wood makes the style. We took this woodblock printing from Germany (1508) to Japan in the 1700s. Not only technique but the style was taken with showing people instead of just landscapes. Some of my personal favorite works of him are City of Hirakata and

Japanese art takes many western practices after the Edo period and focuses on their traditional works. Showing people in art was commonly nontraditional, but made beautiful masterpieces. Most traditional works looked at the world and natural characteristics such as the sky, rivers, and mountains. Even though most art today goes into graphics design and literature many people still practice old traditions such as woodblock printing.

Japanese woodblock printing also has a very unique connection to today's Japanese anime style and culture. The woodblock prints of the Edo Period have an influence on many Super Flat artworks. They influence contemporary animation “brilliant color plantar surface stylized features in the absence of illusionistic space define and lineage in Japanese art that links ukiyo-e screens to woodblock prints to early modern Nihonga painting, and ultimately to post-war manga and anime,”(Murakami 1999:24). Woodblock prints were emerging from the Edo period and was popular with visual culture and supported by the merchant class. Some prints like Illustrations Of Hundred Demons, 1889, by Kawanbe Kyôsai. You can see animated characters that can refer to contemporary artist like Takashi Murakami.

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