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Hiroyuki Tajima

  1911 - 1984 (biography)

1969  

color woodblock 

16 x 13 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

50-24 

pencil titled, dated and editioned 

 

heavy Japanese wove 

published 

artist 

16184 

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Hiroyuki Tajima developed a technique of using oil and wate-based pigments to print these saturated Abstract Expressionist woodcuts. In order to create his unique woodblocks Tajima developed his own ink using powdered color mixed with the plastic medium phenol formaldehyde resin (Bakelite). The resin is extremely water-repellant. He uses this ink for a pattern block and then prints again with a water-based ink or dye, which color the areas not printed by the special ink. The oil based blocks often are collographs with shells, paper, etc. built up on the surface to create interesting elements.