China will apply for UNESCO intangible cultural heritage status for wood engraving paintings. Respected folk artists from more than 10 places that developed the art form have signed their names in ...

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ENGRAVING on wood, although an art not yet quite a century old, has had a changeful and eventful history. In saying not quite a century old, I must be understood as separating it from the woodcutting ...

Chen Yiwen carves on a woodblock in his workshop in Laohekou county, Xiangyang city, Hubei province, Sept 25, 2017. [Photo by Bi Nan/chinadaily.com.cn] Chen Yiwen, who celebrated his 88th birthday on ...

MR. WOODBERRY makes generous acknowledgment to Professor Charles Eliot Norton, without whose aid and counsel he declares that his book 1 could not have been written ; but it should not be inferred ...

Britain has invented numerous sports — tennis, cricket, tossing the caber — but can only claim to have come up with one art form: wood engraving. It is the perfect medium for the times we are living ...

Print Quarterly is the leading international journal dedicated to the art of the print from its origins to the present, covering printmaking traditions all across the globe. The journal publishes ...

The Society of Wood Engravers claims: “Once you’ve felt the lure of wood engraving, it can be hard to resist.” This seems about right if you take as your example local artist Peter Lawrence, the ...

On a recent visit to Bhopal‘s Bharat Bhavan with poets and fellow authors of the city, I spotted a young girl standing outside the complex’ art gallery. Brimming with confidence, she invited us to the ...

An Ararat artist who made a wood-etching device by combining a 2200 volt microwave transformer, jumper cables, and saltwater-soaked nails in a piece of wood has had quite the shock. The artist was ...