Special Exhibitions
Against the Grain
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Against the Grain |
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Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
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History of the Woodcut
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19th-Century Revival
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19th-Century Revival During the next two centuries, other printmaking techniques eclipsed woodcut, but the medium experienced a revival in 19th-century France. Beginning in the early 1860s, Japanese color woodcuts (ukiyo-e prints) had a tremendous impact on French and then American artists who emulated the flattened pictorial space, dramatic points of view, and surface patterns.Aristide Maillol's Wave was influenced by the famous color woodcut of Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1823-31), a striking image of an enormous cresting wave. Maillol exploited the curling water motif to achieve an energetic linear design that surrounds and cushions the nude woman and also creates a lively contrast against the large, flat, white shape of her body. Page 4 of 8 | On the next page: 20th-Century Experiments |
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