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DESCRIPTION:Post-War Masters of the Japanese Print: From the Reingold Colle
 ction\nPortland State University\, Littman Gallery\nJanuary 5-January 28\,
  2009\nMonday - Friday\, Noon-4:00 p.m.\n<a href="http://www.pdx.edu/cjs/e
 vents/22583 /&gt\;www.pdx.edu/cjs/events/22583&lt\;/a&gt\;\n\nThe works of
  art in the current exhibition of selections from the Ellen and Edwin Rein
 gold collection were created at a time of transition for Japanese printmak
 ers. Spanning several decades from the end of the Pacific war they are rep
 resentative of new ways of looking at old themes\, and the use of new tech
 niques and materials as they became available. As foreigners came to appre
 ciate the work of these artists and carried the work abroad during the Occ
 upation (1945-52)\, and as the artists were emboldened to enter\, and to w
 in\, prizes in international art competitions\, this eclectic group attain
 ed a new status at home and abroad. Some were able\, for the first time in
  their lives\, to support themselves by their art. The American writer\, J
 ames Michener\, described his Japanese artist friends: “they are as fine
  a group of men as I have ever known: schoolteachers\, mechanics\, intelle
 ctual hermits\, wild gusty men who loved to drink\, mountaineers\, factory
  workers\, poets of the most exquisite sensibility\, laughing men\, sober 
 men\, tragic men.">www.pdx.edu/cjs/events/22583</a>\n\nThe works of art in
  the current exhibition of selections from the Ellen and Edwin Reingold co
 llection were created at a time of transition for Japanese printmakers. Sp
 anning several decades from the end of the Pacific war they are representa
 tive of new ways of looking at old themes\, and the use of new techniques 
 and materials as they became available. As foreigners came to appreciate t
 he work of these artists and carried the work abroad during the Occupation
  (1945-52)\, and as the artists were emboldened to enter\, and to win\, pr
 izes in international art competitions\, this eclectic group attained a ne
 w status at home and abroad. Some were able\, for the first time in their 
 lives\, to support themselves by their art. The American writer\, James Mi
 chener\, described his Japanese artist friends: “they are as fine a grou
 p of men as I have ever known: schoolteachers\, mechanics\, intellectual h
 ermits\, wild gusty men who loved to drink\, mountaineers\, factory worker
 s\, poets of the most exquisite sensibility\, laughing men\, sober men\, t
 ragic men." These men\, and a considerable number of women\, nourished and
  furthered the print movement by their creativity\, verve\, and audacity. 
 The traditional woodblock print\, employing the simplest materials -- wood
 \, paper\, ink -- has not died\, but has mutated through new uses and comb
 inations of materials\, modern technical means\, and new subject matter\, 
 and a new sense of what at art can be. All of these qualities are clearly 
 displayed in this exhibition.\n\nPortland State University\nCenter for Jap
 anese Studies\n<a href="http://www.pdx.edu/cjs">www.pdx.edu/cjs</a>\n503-7
 25-8577\n
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SUMMARY:Post-War Masters of the Japanese Print: From the Reingold Collectio
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