Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
39,743 artists in the collection
Halverson, Karen
American
American, born 1941
Karen Halverson (born 1941) is an American photographer.
Hamabe, Francis E.
American
American, 1918 - 2002
Hamada Kiyoshi
Hamada Shinsaku
Hamada Shinsaku
Japanese
Hamada Shôji
Hamada Shōji
Japanese
1894 - 1978
Hamada Taisuke
Hamaguchi, Yōzō
Japanese
Japanese, 1909 - 2000
Yozo Hamaguchi (April 5, 1909 - December 25, 2000) was a Japanese copper printmaker who specialized in mezzotint and was responsible for its resurgence as a printmaking medium in the mid-20th century. Hamaguchi's prints are distinguished for their careful attention to detail of boldly hued animals and objects contrasted against a velvety black background. The corpus of Hamaguchi's prints are focused on the still life genre. Once considered a major printmaking medium in Europe throughout the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries, the influence and technological ingenuity of photography signaled the end of mezzotint printmaking as a modern reproducible form. However, Hamaguchi valued its emphasis on tonality and texture as expressed in a work's lighting and tactile qualities. By working in a European-born printing technique, Hamaguchi received praise from the European, American, and Japanese art centers for his distinct mezzotint printing methods and re-popularization of the long-ignored medium. His works attained global exposure after Hamaguchi participated in the prestigious São Paulo Biennale in Brazil (1957) and was included in the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in Italy (1960...
Hamana
Hamanishi Katsunori
Hamanishi Katsunori
Japanese