Friday, February 23, 2007

Sea of Clouds...

Got this image from Art Knowledge News. It's a website with pretty much global coverage of the arts-- short articles about what's happening in every major gallery from Winnipeg to Mumbai.

I love Japanese print-making in general-- this one's newer than the big names of Japanese printmaking, though-- guys like Hiroshige and Hokusai, artists who van Gogh and Monet and others were hugely inspired by.

This one's from 1928 but is darn nice. "Sea of Clouds", it's called.

Click on the image to enlarge it.

4 comments:

Quitmoanez said...

I like how the top part of the sky is more realism, and the bottom part has that woodblock quality to it.

Lorne Roberts said...

yeah, totally. i think what you're seeing there is the mix of the old and the new-- modern international styles creeping into traditional japanese.

Luis G. QuiƱonez, M.D. said...

How is the book coming?

Lorne Roberts said...

ha! carlos asks me that almost every day. it's almost done, thanks for asking. literally just a few more long days, i think, and then i start talking to publishers.