TASK: IDENTIFY A PIECE OF WORK FROM THE COLLECTION. IN SKETCHBOOKS / NOTEBOOKS / PHONES OR TABLETS RECORD IT'S; TITLE, WHEN IT WAS MADE, WHO MADE IT, WHY THEY MADE IT, AND WHAT MATERIALS / TECHNIQUES THEY USED TO MAKE IT.
I focused on the collection of Japanese woodblock prints - "T. B. Lewis left his outstanding collection of Japanese woodblock prints to Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery when he died. It is one of the largest collections of such prints outside London. Included is a version of Hokusai’s The Wave, and a significant proportion of Hiroshige’s famous series 60-Odd Provinces and 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road."
The combination of bold colours with muted tones particularly stood out for me, as well as the typographic element on each print.
There was prints by; Katsushika Hokusai, Kunisada, Ando Hiroshige, Okumura Toshinobu and Katsukawa Shun'ei.
Woodblock printing technique (taken from wikipedia) - 'The text or image was first drawn onto thin washi (Japanese paper), then glued face-down onto a plank of wood, usually cherry. Wood was then cut away, based on the drawing outlines. A small wooden hard object called a baren was used to press the paper against the inked woodblock to apply the ink to the paper. Although this may have been done purely by hand at first, complex wooden mechanisms were soon invented and adopted to help hold the woodblock perfectly still and apply proper pressure in the printing process.'
There was prints by; Katsushika Hokusai, Kunisada, Ando Hiroshige, Okumura Toshinobu and Katsukawa Shun'ei.
Woodblock printing technique (taken from wikipedia) - 'The text or image was first drawn onto thin washi (Japanese paper), then glued face-down onto a plank of wood, usually cherry. Wood was then cut away, based on the drawing outlines. A small wooden hard object called a baren was used to press the paper against the inked woodblock to apply the ink to the paper. Although this may have been done purely by hand at first, complex wooden mechanisms were soon invented and adopted to help hold the woodblock perfectly still and apply proper pressure in the printing process.'
