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Japan

Kawanabe Kyōsai, A Beauty in Front of King Enma's Mirror (detail)

RA Exhibitions

< 3 years ago

Kawanabe Kyōsai: the demon with a brush

Kyōsai blurred the divide between the popular and elite art of 19th-century Japan. Christopher Harding introduces the master of satirical and traditional painting as a rare collection of Kyōsai’s art comes to the RA.
Carving tools lie on a block for Rebecca Salter's Japanese woodblock print "Tessela 1 and 2', on show in the Summer Exhibition 2016

Artists

> 8 years ago

Making a Japanese woodblock print for the Summer Exhibition

In this video, Rebecca Salter RA explains the traditional tools and techniques used by the Sato Woodblock Workshop in Kyoto when creating her print for the Summer Exhibition 2016.

Kitagawa Utamaro, OHisa, of Okita arm wrestling

RA Exhibitions

> 9 years ago

Rebecca Salter RA on the tradition of Japanese woodblock printing

The Academician has spent her career studying and promoting the threatened art of Japanese woodblock printing. Here, she tells us about her new prints, commissioned for the Summer Exhibition.