Katsushika Hokusai's "Chrysanthemums and Horsefly," a woodblock print made around 1833-34, was one of the many works by the Japanese master printer that influenced French Impressionist painter Claude ...

Hold the lift for five seconds before lowering it back down. Perform this exercise 10 times for each finger to build muscle control and flexibility. Wrist curls strengthen the muscles that stabilize ...

What is going on in the setting? How would it be different if the figures had different facial expressions? How would you describe the colors? The shapes? The lines? How would you describe the people ...

Demons Emerge from a Large, Wooden Chest is a gorgeous woodblock print by Kawanable Kyōsai. The print was made in 1890. It's from his book Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, which features a ...

Hokusai used a type of printing called woodblock printing. Woodblock printing began in Japan and is one of the oldest types of printmaking. In woodblock prints, the design is cut or carved into a ...

A visitor views New Year prints at Splendid Beginnings on Woodblocks at the Capital Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Ancient and modern woodblock New Year prints produced in ...

As Wen Li attached her handmade Liangping woodblock print featuring door gods — an item of national intangible cultural heritage — to her front door, she knew this Spring Festival would be ...

There are two figures. One is feminine, the other is masculine. The masculine figure seems to be farther away because he is much smaller and higher in the image. The feminine figure takes up about a ...