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Shin Hanga      Successful Japanese Art Movement.

Shin Hanga

Shin hanga was a Japanese art movement that set in around 1910. It was a renewal of the old ukiyo-e tradition but modernized with Western elements.
Shin Hanga - a Japanese art movement

Zheng Jianhui - born 1983      Student of Zhang Minjie.

Zheng Jianhui - born 1983

Zheng Jianhui is a student of master artist Zhang Minjie. His woodcut series "Village in the Past and Present" and "Happiness in My Village" and "Modern Angels" reflect the challenges young people in China face in terms of reconciling the past with the present. The artist presents these themes with an inner humor and innocence that appeals to art friends worldwide.
Zheng Jianhui - Video Presentation

Xiong Xiqiu - born 1979      Refreshing Chinese Pop Art.

Xiong Xiqiu - born 1979

In spite of her young age Miss. Xiong Xiqiu is a leading Chinese printmaker who has repeatedly been selected for the most important national Chinese printmaking show - the National Print Exhibitions - and has even made it into the official catalog. Xiong Xiqiu represents a new style of modern Chinese pop art.
Xiong Xiqiu

Ryusei Okamaoto born 1949      Exceptional Japanese Printmaker

Ryusei Okamaoto born 1949

Ruysei Okamoto was a favorite student of Toshi Yoshida. With such series like "First Love" or "Modern Ukiyo-e" the artist has created works of uncontested craftsmanship and charming beauty.
About Ryusei Okamoto

Osamu Sugiyama born 1946      Mountain Views.

Osamu Sugiyama born 1946

Osamu Sugiyama is a passionate Japanese mountaineer and printmaker. His subjects show mountain views in Japan, Nepal and Europe out of the personal experience of the artist.
Japanese Printmaker Osamu Sugiyama

Wen Mujiang - born 1970      Leading Chinese Printmaker.

Wen Mujiang - born 1970

In September of 2008 Wen Mujiang won the Golden Prize of the First Yunnan International Print Exhibition. The woodblock prints of the artist deal with the changes in today's China - mainly in the rural areas - since the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao Dzedong.
Chinese Printmaker Wen Mujiang

Hasui Kawase - 1883 until 1957      Living National Treasure.

Hasui Kawase - 1883 until 1957

Hasui Kawase was the most important landscape printmaker of the shin hanga movement in Japan. Shortly before his death he was declared a "National Living Treasure" by the Japanese government.
Hasui Kawase

Kuchi-e      Woodblock Kuchi-e Prints.

Kuchi-e

Kuchi-e are frontispiece illustrations for novels or were inserted to magazines from around 1895 until 1915. They are original woodblock prints.
Kuchi-e

Chinese Prints - Buying Tips      Classics of Tomorrow.

Chinese Prints - Buying Tips

A few practical buying tips for modern Chinese prints for collectors and art friends. This is the first part of a series of videos about Chinese art prints.
Chinese Prints

Katsuyuki Nishijima      Successful Contemporary Japanese Printmaker.

Katsuyuki Nishijima

Introduction to Japanese woodblock printmaker Katsuyuki Nishijima, born 1945. Katsuyuki Nishijima is an astonishing success story. His inexpensive prints of romantic views of Japan usually have editions sizes of 500 and are in high demand by the public in and outside of Japan.
Katsuyuki Nishijima