[Baren]: The mailing list / discussion forum for woodblock printmaking. Baren Digest Monday, 13 December 1999 Volume 09 : Number 820 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: michael schneider Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 03:27:41 +0100 Subject: [Baren 7144] Re: the meaning of baren II Jack Reisland wrote: > It is interesting to note that printing, in Durer's time, was a collaborative > effort just as it came to be in Japan. Did that idea perhaps arrive in Japan > along with the baren? Well I think I should stop guessing here, but it seems to me that structures that promise to earn more money are found very fast everywhere. But to get a good answer on that we should contact a historian. michael ------------------------------ From: Mary Krieger Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:38:54 -0600 Subject: [Baren 7145] Pan American print exhibition Hi all Those who have been on Baren for a while might recall my invitation to take part in a juried exhibition timed to coincide with the Pan American Games held her in Winnipeg this past summer. The exhibition went well and had a high proportion of woodcuts. I have just come from a meeting where we succeeded in posting the site to the web. It can be found at the following address. http://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/gallery/hpgs/mpa/Panam/panam.html The site is quite large - there were over ninety prints in the exhibition. I hope you enjoy the visit. Mary Krieger ------------------------------ From: "Philip Smith" Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:35:03 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7149] Re: Pan American print exhibition charset="iso-8859-1" Hello Mary,....I spent the last 45minutes looking at your gallery wall,...very nice indeed! There are alot of interesting prints in your show,...scrolling left to right is a neat idea!! Thanks. Philip ------------------------------ From: Wanda Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:44:35 -0800 Subject: [Baren 7150] Re: Pan American print exhibition These are wonderful! And I see at least two Baren members have prints in there - Bea Gold & Karla Hackenmiller. Congratulations to both of you! Are there more Baren members with prints in there that I missed? I like the horizontal format, but I have seen it on other web sites - yours, Graham, and one of the Australian art sites had the prints of the coast (artist, Josephine?) in a horizontal display. It does feel like you are going around the room & looking at the wall. I like it! Thanks for posting the URL, Mary. Wanda ------------------------------ From: David Bull Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:18:06 +0900 Subject: [Baren 7151] Ban-Ban I took a couple of hours off this afternoon to visit the yearly exhibition of the woodblock printmaking club at our local 'culture centre'. This is a group of housewives, retired people, and printmaking hobbyists, who meet once a week. Pretty much every community in Japan has a similar club; the craft of woodblock printmaking is still going _very_ strong over here! The local group has this show every year to show their work, and also to sell their calendars. There were some pretty neat prints in the show. I took my camera along, and have just loaded up a bunch of images. I don't have time to make up a bunch of web pages for this, but if you simply set your browser to: http://woodblock.com/temporary/ban-ban/1999 you will see a listing of image files (mostly self explanatory, I hope). Click on any image name to see it in your browser window. (There are also a few images from last year's show in the folder at: http://woodblock.com/temporary/ban-ban/1998) Enjoy! Dave ------------------------------ From: "John Ryrie" Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:58:15 +1100 Subject: [Baren 7152] Re: the meaning of baren II Michael It was side grain, end-grain has only been used since the 1700s John ------------------------------ From: "John Ryrie" Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:46:50 +1100 Subject: [Baren 7153] 2 German chaps Jack said > This is very interesting, and brings up some more questions. Was the > 'ballen' still much in use after the invention of the printing press by > Gutenburg in 1450 Sorry Jack but Gutenburg is remembered for the invention of movable type. The presses he used were converted wine presses which were being widely used at that time for printing woodcuts. As for Durer not doing his own prints, that may be true of his woodcuts but not so of his copper engravings, which he was master at, dew to his early curare as a silver smith. John ------------------------------ From: amoss@mindspring.com (John Amoss) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:14:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Baren 7154] re: Ban-Ban The Ban-Ban exhibit that Dave posted certainly represents a lot of good work! I noticed that no one there is afraid of making large prints- it appears as if several are 2 ft. wide... I especially liked the daruma fan . I'm glad to see another thriving and ambitious hanga community. Thanks Dave! - -John Amoss ------------------------------ From: michael schneider Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:50:51 +0100 Subject: [Baren 7155] Re: 2 German chaps After leaving his fathers gold-smith workshop,Durer learnd to do woodcut in master Wolgemuts workshop from 1486 to 1490. After he left Wolgemut, he went on to study copper-engraving with the then considered gratest master of this art Martin Schongauer. Unfortunately Schongauer had allraedy died when Durer arrived at the masters workshop, but studied then with Schongauers brother. We can assume, that Durer in any case a master in engraving, paised in his time for his achievements in the art of engraving actualy did some engraving by himself. On the other hand, we can not assume that he was printing the plates at all. In fact, we know the names of the printmaker producing Durers woodcuts. michael ------------------------------ From: michael schneider Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:52:14 +0100 Subject: [Baren 7156] Re: the meaning of baren II >It was side grain, end-grain has only been used since the 1700s John, you are absolutely right. ------------------------------ End of Baren Digest V9 #820 ***************************