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<< Shin Hanga >>
Shin Hanga means New Prints in Japanese and
was a kind of renaissance of the traditional style of
Japanese printmaking. It lasted from about 1910 until maybe
1970. The driving force behind the movement was not a
group of artists, but a print publisher named Watanabe
Shozaburo - a smart businessman who exported the larger
part of the Shin Hanga prints to Europe and the United States
in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Shin Hanga movement integrated Western elements like
the effects of light and shadow and Western perspective into
classical Ukiyo-e themes like landscapes, beautiful
women, actors and nature prints. The most significant
difference to the Sosaku Hanga movement was the continuation
of the traditional teamwork idea as a combined
effort of the artist, the block carver, the printer and the
publisher. Therefore Shin Hanga prints are always of a superb
technical standard.
Japanese Shin Hanga Artists
Western Shin Hanga Artists Who Lived in Japan
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Ukiyo-e History