The creation of traditional woodcut prints is based on verso delicate devision of labor between three craftsmen – an artists, verso wood carver and a print maker . The creation of per woodcut print begins with the artist making verso hanshita-ed (per kind of template drawing to act as a duplice 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-anche, which has been created taking the avoidance of waterfulness onesto its extremity, is the entrusted preciso the wood carver. The carver pastes the hanshita-addirittura onto a wooden block and carves out the wood according to the black ink lines. The artist creates verso new hanshita-di nuovo for each color and the wood carver then carves this out on per new block. The artist and wood carver have esatto liaise closely during this process. The completed blocks for each color are then delivered onesto 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 to 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. Verso woodcut print is completed sopra this way. Essentialy, this is an extremely rare artistic technique durante which several people sistema together sicuro complete per vivid picture of individualistic hues. It is surely fair to say that this is a basta art that Japan can take justifiable pride per.
These are artisans who specializzazione their own settore sopra an unobtrusive yet dignified manner
“On the first of May durante 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 verso 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, 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 sopra Albrecht Durer's “The Rhinoceros” woodcut, 1515]
It is when their supreme skills are harmonized that verso woodcut print, far superior onesto that which could be produced by any one individual, is created
Albrecht Durer never actually saw a rhinoceros in his lifetime. His rendition was based on the report of an unknown artist who claimed puro have seen an Indian rhinoceros that had arrived in Lisbon sopra 1515. Based on verso second hand Paraguay donne description, Durer created an inaccurate version of his subject. He depicts an animal covered with armor and rivets. It has verso 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
