Catalog record · 目録番号 129697

Concept of Cycle (Revolution)

Catalog note / 解説

Very small edition size of only 20 prints, this print being the very first strike off the blocks. Remember, this print was produced via the woodblock reduction technique, so there can never be any further editions.woodblock reduction prints. Using only a single woodblock to complete the entire print, the woodblock reduction technique was born of a small group of Yunan Province artists. While Japanese woodblock prints are produced by carving a separate woodblock for each represented colour, the reduction woodblock printing technique produces a similar result by sequentially recarving a single block -- one time for each colour represented in the image. After each recarving, the entire edition…

Image record / 画像情報

OHMI · 2001 · ohmi

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