Chubby Buddha Yeah and it seems like he knows exactly where to put the painting and without any sort of visual guide from what I can see. Pretty incredible.
AyahuascaSage if you notice, he always places one corner of the paper down first, that's where his guidelines are. he is measuring, you just don't realize it.
i have seen this video 12 years ago when started graphic dept studying… i am still in awe. the precision… no mess… calm moves.. watching a master is something else! ❤✨🌸
@@23PowerL He doesn't always do that if you'll notice though. Some of the details he puts in after are on the same block he used earlier but he moves the paper to get a different part covered. Oh wait it looks like there are several slots even on one wood block.
As someone who worked in the printing industry for a while, I can understand the skill necessary to get the colors to register correctly with hand tools. Let's hope this never dies out.
As someone who has some experience with woodcuts, I couldn't agree more. I find the inking process to be more nerve-wracking than cutting, as just one tiny misstep (not laying down enough ink, the block or paper shifting during the printing process, etc.) can ruin a print. Ukiyo-e takes great artistry, not only in making numerous woodblocks that all must fit together perfectly when printing, but also in applying the colors and the printing itself. It's absolutely astounding to me.
I've loved Japanese prints for years now, but to gain an insight into how the early masters like Utamaro made their works is something else, really brought me in close, thank you
A painstaking but vibrant way to produce art. one mistake or slip at any stage and its scrap paper. Much talent to carve the more complex Ukiyo-e pieces. Now that I understand the process have a lot of respect for the Edo period artists and those that continue in this style today
So wonderful to see the gentleman truly enjoys his craft. Love his smile at the end of the video. Such a beautiful print, amazed to see how precise the completed print is and yet the ease at which the gentleman works...such a seemingly effortless flow.
Ukiyo-e was not art back then. These were mass produced poster-like craft for common people. Publisher coordinated painter, carver, and printer to produce and sold them at stores. Though carver and printer, such as this man, were required to be highly skilled, only painter's name was used to market. This process division was commonly seen in craft and art production in old days in Japan. Swords were produced by steel makers, sword smiths, and grinders for example.
づんく Dzunku it is a nice example of predating graphic design, even though all three of them did unique work beeing worthy the title artist, their clever colaboration made it possible to produce art for the masses, also called graphic design. they are a great example for explaining the mere difference between design and art, also it must've inspired german design academy Bauhaus, where colaboration of different arts is a must. publisher gave the things needed and the mere idea, artist painted it carver carved the painting as negative and printer printed it on paper and for every layer the circle repeats. since it was sold as art it had the stamp from the artist.
I started watching the video for the printing, but then got entranced by the koto playing. Thanks for writing the music credits at the end of the video.
man... carving such fine lines is a real nightmare to me and my classmates, i study art and whenever i set myself to make a very delicate woodblock with black and fine lines i have a really tough time, the way these artists do it so effortlessly make it seems almost easy
It is an amazing chance to see the "process" and definite artistry of the printer. It gives a whole new way of actually viewing the historic prints...and combined artistry. "Simply" beautiful. Thank you.
There's artistry in both ends of the production. 'Talent' is the wrong word, what you're seeing here is skill. You have to work very quickly with prints for them to turn out correctly, and then you have to consider that he has to get 17 colors printed consecutively with no room for error... and that's just a single print. The printer is responsible for producing the delicate fade of color you see in this art style, so the color and texture is almost solely dependent on the printer.
It caught me off guard watching him start with the black linework, when doing reduction woodblocks I was taught to go from highest value to the lowest. Impressive mastery of the medium.
This is inspiring! What a very talented man! i want to do something like this for my art word at school but i don't have nearly enough talent ot do anything like that. Very impressed.
He applies the black after he has already applied the gold in the dress. How does not the gold completely dissapear after a black ink is put all over it? Also the mastery of really not spilling any colour into one another parts of the drawing is utterly fascinating.
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The registration marks are cut into each block. You can clearly see him putting the corner of each sheet first into the corner on his lower right, then that edge is lowered down into one more cut mark in the middle of that same edge. That's it. Two registration marks.
I agree with you know, after finding out more about the process or both ends, i don't know why i used the word talent here, though i wouldn't say that there is a lack of talent here, i think someone must have a certain degree of talent to work with those little carving tools in the first place
At one o clock in the morning, heading to bed for an early start I almost blew a raspberry’s at this without watching.........beauty and sanity, thank you.
bravissimo, bravissimo, ti stimo davvero molto *si inchina* anche io a scuola faccio cose simili anche se non giapponesi, quanto vorrei imparare la loro arte, io amo il Giappone ^^
Very cool video. What an amazing process. I wish I had more time to enjoy some personal fine art printing. Even with screen printing I can make some cool stuff ;) ☠
Talent is a measure of a person's natural aptitude, in other words it's a way of describing people who are exceptionally fast at building skills. But you could have zero talent and build an incredible repertoire of skills, or you could be phenomenally talented but never practice a day in your life and have weak skills. It's an insult to artists to suggest that their skills are merely talent, as if all the many hundreds of hours spent honing their craft never happened.
