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Xu Chengchun Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Xu Chengchun
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Mr. Xu Chengchun was born and lives in Liaoning Province located in the North of China with boundaries to the Yellow Sea and the Korean peninsula. The region is characterized by cultural tradition and a great wilderness landscape that used to be populated by nomads and animals of the North like elks, birds, bears, wolves.
Resumé of Xu Chengchun

Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints Multicolor Woodblocks from One Block.

Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints
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Over the last decades a new technique how to create a multicolor woodblock print has emerged and become widely used by Chinese printmakers. The process is called reduction woodblock printing or sometimes also no-waste printing. All colors are printed just out of one block which is recarved for each color. Thus the original block is destroyed during the creation process and further copies beyond the first edition are impossible.
Chinese Reduction Woodblock Prints

Emiko Aida Aquatints

Emiko Aida
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Emiko Aida is a painter and printmaker who lives and works in London. She was born and trained in arts in Japan. Ms. Aida's work is connected with water in the most different forms. Her aquatints and woodblock prints show people in public swimming pools or under an umbrella while rain is pouring down from the skies. Works by Emiko Aida are exhibited worldwide and are in the New York Public Library.
Painter and Printmaker Emiko Aida

Tom Kristensen Woodblock Prints Traditional Japanese Style

Tom Kristensen Woodblock Prints
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Tom Kristensen, born in 1962, would not be the collector of Japanese prints and woodblock printmaker without the internet. Tom is a phenomenon as an artist. He has started as a self-styled woodblock printmaker in 2003 without any history of art training or exhibitions records. Since then artelino has sold nearly 500 of his prints in online art auctions.
Woodblock Prints by Tom Kristensen

Green Island - Footprint Green Island - Footprint

Green Island - Footprint
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Tom Kristensen, born 1962, is a young artist from Australia who works in the tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking. On this page, he writes about his latest print "Footprint" from the series "36 Views of Green Island ".
Green Island - Footprint

Nepal Statues Art from Patan in Nepal

Nepal Statues
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They are called Nepal Bronzes or Tibetan Statues. Both names are a bit misleading. It is an art form for which the Newar artists in Nepal have been famous for from Middle Ages until our days. And the metal used for these unique, all handmade statues is not bronze, but mostly copper - sometimes also brass or various alloys. This articles describes how these metal art works are created by the method of "lost wax form" (Cire Perdue).
Nepal Metal Statues

Latest Auction Results for Chinese Art Prints Boom in Chinese Art Prints

Latest Auction Results for Chinese Art Prints
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After the spectacular boom in contemporary Chinese paintings and sculptures, it looks like the market of modern Chinese art prints is now following the boom with a time lag. Latest auction results from China indicate a firm trend.
Auction Results Chinese Prints

Zhang Liufeng Sunday, July 06, 2008

Zhang Liufeng
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Mr. Zhang Liufeng's art works are characterized by a very distinctive style. These lithographs have an athmosphere of its own. The people that are shown in such series like "Fortress Besieged" look so real but somehow lost and left alone. For us at artelino these images are still not yet interpreted. But they have have a mesmerizing charm that is hard to describe.
Resumé Zhang Liufeng

Zheng Jianhui - Modern Angels Sunday, July 06, 2008

Zheng Jianhui - Modern Angels
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In 2008 the young Chinese artist Zheng Jianhui, born 1983, finished his print series "Modern Angels", created in the technique of reduction woodblocks. This page is a publication of the artist's statement about his "Modern Angels" series.
Modern Angels

China Art Prints The New Art Wave from China

China Art Prints
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Contemporary Chinese art has seen an explosive demand in and outside of China. Bidders pay as much as 6 million US $ for a painting by Zhang Xiaogang, born 1958, at international auctions in Hong Kong or New York. Art prints are still in the shadow of this booming market, although prices for some artists have risen up to 5 times of what had to be paid 5 years ago when we at artelino began to offer modern prints from China.
Prints from China

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