This genre of art is something that has inspired our current visual style. The color woodcut is a color image recproduction technique that was already known at the time of the early printers and in which different woodcut plates were used for different colors. In the Japanese colour woodcut, the different colors are applied by hand to the printing plate. Below are some artists whose work I find really visually appealing, as they interpret shadows and highlights using largely black and white.
Conrad Felixmüller
Oskar Kokoschka
Photos taken from the book 'Art for All' by Taschen (sourced from the library)
From the book 'German Expressionist Prints' by The Marcia and Granvil Specks collection
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