Born in 1870 into a wealthy Jewish family in Prague, Emile Orlik made his first woodblock print in 1896 before later deciding to travel to Japan, the home of woodblock printing. Once there, he learned about the technique and also studied traditional painting with Kano Tomonobu, a Kano school painter who had connections with the art historians Ernest Fenollosa and Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin), who both exerted considerable influence over the direction of Japanese art at the time. This is one of a trilogy of works that also included The Japanese Carver and The Japanese Printer, and the model was Tomonobu. Holding his body at a slight angle and his brush upright, Tomonobu focuses intensively as he draws a line.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)
Born in 1870 into a wealthy Jewish family in Prague, Emile Orlik made his first woodblock print in 1896 before later deciding to travel to Japan, the home of woodblock printing. Once there, he learned about the technique and also studied traditional painting with Kano Tomonobu, a Kano school painter who had connections with the art historians Ernest Fenollosa and Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin), who both exerted considerable influence over the direction of Japanese art at the time. This is one of a trilogy of works that also included The Japanese Carver and The Japanese Printer, and the model was Tomonobu. Holding his body at a slight angle and his brush upright, Tomonobu focuses intensively as he draws a line.
(YATSUYANAGI Sae)