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Can we add a woodcut of Paradise Lost by Gustave Doré? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.243.172.115 (talk) 18:58, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
Any article titled "Woodcut" should cover the worldwide history of its topic and not just developments in Europe - see: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive#Because it is in English, is Wikipedia supposed to be Euro-centric?. I suggest we merge this with woodblock printing or rename it woodblock printing in Europe mukerjee (talk) 15:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
I agree the article is Eurocentric. When I expanded it it from the purely technical stub I looked for stuff on Wikipedia to add but there was only the ukiyo-e article, which deals with a particular rather late genre of Japanese print. There needs to be an article on Asian prints in general (a parallel to old master print) - were there old Chinese ones? I don't even know. I would rather someone with more knowledge did this.
I don't agree about any renaming. This is a technique article, one of a number feeding from printmaking; the history section here should be brief, but should cover Asia. I would have put this in if I had had the knowledge. Anyone? Johnbod 18:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Johnbod 20:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
- As I have now changed the first line, which Mukerjee said was the only thing he objected to, and found and added some more material on Asia, i think the tag can be removed & have done so, as I think the article is now balanced - although i would like to know more about China, and Iran that somebody put in - can't find anything on Iranian prints. Also Indian ones. The really trouble is not here but in the articles on the art of the Asian cultures - apart from Japan they are rather thin. I have some books, but could not find much on prints. Johnbod 02:12, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject countering systemic bias is coming up with a policy proposal for these internal systemic biases. (Wikimachine 22:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC))
What about the illos in the Wall Street Journal? 19th century books and such? Did they really cut into blocks of wood still or is there some technique of just making it look like that?
Hmm....I just read up on the WSJ woodcuts and they are not woodcuts but dot patterns. And they just look 19th century. The paper did not even HAVE illos until 1980s!
And yes, we have a Wiki article on the technique: "Hedcut".
There were a series of beautiful images made for Agricola's last and most famous work, De re Metallica. They delayed publication for a year (and the book came out after his death). They have a very draftmanlike quality (almost like some doing isometric drawings). Renaissance use of perspective, I guess. And lots of content (even at the time) in terms of the lettered labeling of apparatus. Plus, they just look sort of Escher or Durer like. Don't they?
Which do you like best? (See Commons category for more.)
Article claims that (regarding chiaroscuro woodcuts) "According to one definition of the term, they were first invented by Lucas Cranach in Germany in 1507" without providing a citation to back up this claim. There is no such claim in the Lucas Cranach the Elder article.
If justification for it can't be found, surely this claim should be deleted? — so I added a citation needed thingy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art citation shows an example of a chiaroscuro print by Ugo da Carpi, dated only "mid-1520s" and does not justify the claim "first made in Italy by Ugo da Carpi before 1516". It does however state "Ugo da Carpi was the first Italian artist to experiment with the multiblock colored woodcut."
I have therefore deleted the claim of "before 1516" since no citation justifying that claim has been provided.
Date given for Hans Burgkmair's invention of the technique is unreferenced, but in line with other information (although Cranach date is also unreferenced). I added a citation needed thingy.
Michael F 1967 (talk) 01:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
In old books, one frequently finds mention of "spirited woodcuts" - I have looked at some and it does not seem to mean that the drawing shows great spirit (is lively) - in fact there are mentions of spirited woodcuts for initial capitals in texts so I get the impression that it is an old specialist printing term. Any ideas? Shyamal (talk) 05:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The spread of woodcut and how it's influenced different parts of the world is super interesting and I think it should be part of this page! This page had it's influences in European culture but it's been heavily used in other parts of the world such as Latin American, Korea, Russia, India, etc. I added in a section about Mexico. Avvaik92 (talk) 23:36, 6 April 2019 (UTC)