During the late 19th and early 20th century, the exchange of artistic ideas between Europe and Japan went both ways.
Hikari umi (Glittering Sea), by Hiroshi Yoshida (1926)
According to the Clark Art Institute, artists in the Shin-Hanga Movement were working in "an intense period of modernization and Westernization, and many shin-hanga artists appealed to consumers by creating works that evoked nostalgia for a premodern Japan."
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Dave is an icon to us fledgling woodblock printmakers working using the Japanese method.
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