ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sakutarō Hagiwara, Kōshirō Onchi, Woody Plant
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The ligneous sensibility of postwar s saku hanga may be conceptualized in four categories the depiction of actual wooden planks or timbers and objects made of wood the rendering of human figures in a woody sort of idiom. Compositions of wood-grain printing the articulation of expressive carving marks. Artists of the s saku-hanga ("creative prints") movement took control of every aspect of the printmaking process design, carving, and printing were by the same pair of hands. Name: two bodhisattva and ten great disciples of sakyamuni. Pair of six-panel screens; twelve woodcuts, ink on paper. Gutai works of art focus on interaction between person and matter/material. Avant gardism -a group that creates or promotes innovative ideas or techniques in a given field, especially in the arts. 2 groups that show avant gardism are gutai and mono-ha. More expensive to produce photography in color. Artist added water, let it dry, to get to the right consistency.