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Chinese printmaker Zhu Rui, born 1970, demonstrates how he makes a woodblock print. This is our first video from China showing a contemporary artist at work. Especially interesting because you can see the specific Chinese tradition of printing which is slightly different from the Japanese method. BTW, compare this video with the images of Zhu Rui in his Studio!.
I have seen it over and over again, and I love this video. - Dieter
Woodblock Printmaking Demonstration
Short presentation of print works by Emiko Aida, a female painter and printmaker born in Japan and now at home in London.
Presentation of Japanese-British artist Emiko Aida
This film shows how Tibetan carpets and rugs are made all by hand in the small Himalayan country of Nepal. The film was produced by the Carpet and Wool Development Board of Nepal. By courtesy of Nepal Carpet Industries. Thirteen minutes long.
Rugs from Nepal
A welcome message by Dieter Wanczura, the owner and manager of the artelino company.
Welcome Message
Zhou Lu, born 1973, creates art prints showing bald-headed boys who look like grown-ups in situations that express the conflict between the old Communist China under Mao Zedong and the China of today under the massive impact of westernization. Zhou Lu is a typical artist of a contemporary Chinese art movement called cynical realism.
Short Biography of Zhou Lu
Zhang Biao, born 1971, received outstanding prizes at the 17th National Chinese Print Exhibition in Guiyang in 2007 and again at the 18th National Print Exhibition in autumn of 2008 in Shanghai for two art prints that show his little daughter "Fang Fang".
Short Biography of Zhang Biao
Haku Maki, 1924 - 2000, is known in the art world for his prints with strange-looking old Chinese kanji characters that the artist refined and beautified using a mixed media technique that produced strongly embossed prints.
Biography Haku Maki
Presentation of our Himalayan arts and crafts products - Tibetan rugs, Tibetan thangkas and Nepal statues.
Himalayan Art
Printmaker Graham Scholes, born in 1933, from Canada, demonstrates how to make a woodblock print. An excellent video demonstration made by the artist himself, published on the artelino web site with kind permission by the artist.
Woodblock Printmaking with Graham Scholes
Li Haiping, born 1982, is a student of Wang Yuhui. In 2007 he graduated from Yunnan Fine Arts Academy. He became known with his awesome series 'lips' and 'hands'.
Short Biography Li Haiping