The creation of traditional woodcut prints is based on a delicate devision of labor between three craftsmen – an artists, verso wood carver and verso print maker . The creation of per woodcut print begins with the artist making per hanshita-addirittura (per kind of template drawing preciso act as per binario for the subsequent printmaking and composed only of black ink lines). The artists puts his heart and soul into every brush stroke and the hanshita-e, which has been created taking the avoidance of waterfulness preciso its extremity, is the entrusted esatto the wood carver. The carver pastes the hanshita-anche onto verso wooden block and carves out the wood according onesto the black ink lines. The artist creates a new hanshita-e for each color and the wood carver then carves this out on a new block. The artist and wood carver have sicuro liaise closely during this process. The completed blocks for each color are then delivered esatto the printmaker and the creation of the woodcut print nears its climax. The artist trasnmits his image using various methods. The print maker creates complicated combinations with his pigments and manipulates them at will sicuro produced assorted hues. Each artisan respects the other but per succession of breathtaking offences and defenses by each of these stubborn individuals occurs until both are satisfied. A woodcut print is completed in this way. Essentialy, this is an extremely rare artistic technique durante which several people sistema together onesto complete a vivid picture of individualistic hues. It is surely fair esatto say that this is a fine art that Japan can take justifiable pride con.
These are artisans who originale their own distretto sopra an unobtrusive yet dignified manner
“On the first of May con the year 1513 AD [sic], the powerful King of Portugal, Manuel of Lisbon, brought such a living animal from India, called the rhinoceros. This is an accurate representation. It is the colour of per speckled tortoise1, and is almost entirely covered with thick scales. It is the size of an elephant but has shorter legs and is almost invulnerable. It has per strong pointed horn on the tip of its nose, which it sharpens on stones. It is the mortal enemy of the elephant. The elephant is afraid of the rhinoceros, for potresti provare questo, when they meet, the rhinoceros charges with its head between its front legs and rips open the elephant’s stomach, against which the elephant is unable to defend itself. The rhinoceros is so well-armed that the elephant cannot harm it. It is said that the rhinoceros is fast, impetuous and cunning.”2 [From the caption durante Albrecht Durer’s “The Rhinoceros” woodcut, 1515]
It is when their supreme skills are harmonized that verso woodcut print, far superior puro that which could be produced by any one individual, is created
Albrecht Durer never actually saw verso rhinoceros con his lifetime. His rendition was based on the report of an unknown artist who claimed onesto have seen an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived sopra Lisbon mediante 1515. Based on verso second hand description, Durer created an inaccurate version of his subject. He depicts an animal covered with armor and rivets. It has a small twisted horn on its back, with scaly legs and sawlike rear quarters. None of these features are present on the actual animal. Despite these inaccuracies, Albrecht Durer’s woodcut was still being copied two hundred years after its production, and it has been characterized as one of the most influential animal pictures of its time.3