Chinese New Year woodblock prints, or nianhua, flourished hundreds of years ago. /CGTN Gusu woodblock prints like this flourished hundreds of years ago in China. /CGTN Details of Japanese ukiyo-e ...

Often brightly colored and meticulously detailed, woodblock prints gained initial prominence in Japan as an accessible artform during the Edo Period (1603-1868). Prints made during this period are ...

Woodblock printing techniques have been around for more than a thousand years, but letter paper decorated with woodblock-printed poems or pictures did not come into use until the late Qing Dynasty ...

How can you go wrong with wood-block prints that capture the pleasures of the "Floating World"? It is a long-ago vanished world that is all the more beautiful because it knew it was a vanishing world.

The Pokemon Company has released two absolutely stunning prints made from real woodblock carvings. Both prints are homages of classic Japanese art and were made in the ukiyo-e style that dates back to ...

David Bull came to Japan to master the art of woodblock printing. He learned valuable lessons about Japanese culture and that there is more to the works of art than the paper they are printed on. “The ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — The curator of a new exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is asking you to take deep look with him at two significant strains of artistic evolution taking place within the genre ...

Wormholes aren't just for time travel or teleportation anymore. Some very real and ancient wormholes are now helping to trace the distribution of insect species and artwork. A biologist found himself ...

The woodcuts for Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk were Wharton Esherick's first foray into woodworking. (Emma Lee/WHYY) An original woodcut block by Wharton Esherick for the frontispiece of Rhymes of Early ...