Surimono (Japanese woodblock prints)


	Surimono (Japanese woodblock prints)

Lexica

7-13-2009 9:32 PM

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art, ukiyo-e, woodblock-prints, japan, free, downloads

Lexica says:

This artist does beautiful work and has generously made much of it available for free download.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ac8bbd8-f62d-428c-830e-c0e4ed622b36/3F346134-205F-48F8-9378-E8313DA600D1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://woodblock.com/surimono/history.html" href="http://woodblock.com/surimono/history.html" style="font-size: 11px;">woodblock.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://woodblock.com/surimono/history.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/woodblock.com/img/54616C8D-1935-4B51-8F0D-F5C23231F474" alt="The History of Surimono" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://woodblock.com/surimono/history.html"><P><IMG width="1" vspace="0" hspace="5" height="1" align="bottom" x-sas-useimageheight="" x-sas-useimagewidth="" src="http://woodblock.com/surimono/images/clear_dot.gif" /><FONT size="+2">S</FONT>urimono are a 'sub
         category' of traditional Japanese woodblock prints. Unlike
         the more famous <I>ukiyo-e,</I> which were
         produced with the intention of being distributed as widely
         as possible, surimono were privately published works, used
         for gifts or sometimes for making announcements, and were
         almost never sold to the general public. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://woodblock.com/surimono/history.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/woodblock.com/img/5EC6D9A1-D517-4A4D-BC49-32BCA9F53C5B" alt="A Gakutei Surimono" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://woodblock.com/surimono/history.html"><P>Because no commercial motivations were
         involved, purely artistic factors were allowed to dominate
         economics in their manufacture. The finest papers and
         pigments were used, top rank craftsmen were commissioned to
         do the carving and printing, and the best artists were asked
         to produce the designs. Surimono were usually fairly small
         in size, with 19 x 21.5 cm being the most common dimension.
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