Coined in 1915 by print exporter Shozaburo Watanabe, shin-hanga, or new prints, stylistically shifted the medium to include more perspective and depth of field in comparison to the flat nature of the ...

The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design is the first show by the Worcester Art Museum devoted to examining the kimono as a major source of inspiration, style, and experimentation in Japanese ...

While not the only movements happening within the genre of printmaking at the time, shin-hanga (new prints) and sōsaku-hanga (creative prints) were two radically different schools of thought about how ...

And according to those who knew and worked with him, this aesthetic sense developed early and was influenced heavily by Japanese art — especially the modern woodblock prints, or shin-hanga ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock prints. Interviews with former colleagues and friends reveal that his lifelong ...

Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Evening at Sado, 1938. Woodblock print. Photo, the Clark Kawase Hasui, "Late Autumn in Ichikawa," 1930. Color woodblock print. Photo, Clark Art Institute Kawase Hasui, Snow at ...

The prints exemplify the soft painterly style that is synonymous ... APRIL 11 | 4:30 p.m. Reception & Curator's Lecture: Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga & Beyond: The Art of the Japanese Woodcut Curator Andrew ...

A number of these later shin hanga prints are on view, and, though very pretty, most lack the invention, intensity, and deeper beauty of earlier works. And no wonder, since they were made for a ...

Skinner is honored to present a pristine collection of over 100 pre-earthquake and pre-war prints featuring works by Japanese painter and shin hanga printmaker Kawase Hasui (1883-1957).