Kanae Yamamoto — The Fisherman | Sosaku-hanga Print

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Kanae Yamamoto — The Fisherman | Sosaku-hanga PrintKanae Yamamoto (18821946) was the founding figure of the Ssaku hanga (creative print) movement in Japan the artist who, in 1904, produced the first Japanese woodblock print entirely conceived, carved, and printed by a single artist. His fishermen, children, and village scenes broke decisively from the commercial ukiyo e tradition and established the self expressive print as a form of fine art. He is to Japanese modern printmaking what Czanne is to

9th–10th century CE) is one of the most iconic objects in the history of Islamic art — a Quran written in gold Kufic script on vellum dyed a deep indigo blue

and large-scale mural commissions

Trained in the Sōtatsu tradition

and visually complex body of work in Edo painting

and printmaking from the Heian period to the present

particularly his blue nocturnes of Tokyo landmarks

now in the Imperial Household collection) constitute the most detailed

Persian carpet

His graphic facility and eye for pattern make his decorative drawings among the most distinctive works of late-18th-century Dutch draughtsmanship

Jamini Roy (1887–1972) was one of India's most original modern artists and a pioneer of the nationalist art movement

Édouard Travies (1809–1866) was a French illustrator and naturalist artist who contributed to several major natural history publications of the mid-19th century — a period when the documentary illustration of birds

butterflies

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