Tetsuya Noda

Tetsuya Noda was born in 1940 in Kumamoto Preficture. He is famous for his prints. He is a print maker, now for those of you who don't know what print making is exactly. Print making is when the artist creates a sort of stamp and places ink on the stamp and then places it on paper. The way they can do it is by getting a piece of wood and placing a sort of rubber ontop of it. Then they first sketch the drawing onto the rubber and then carv out the negative. After the artist has created the stamp he can print as many prints as he wants using a variety of color. Tetsuya also used to paint but that practice became unsuccessful so he turned to printmaking as his main focus. Now I've done print making in art class for high school and let me tell you it is not an easy thing to do. First you have to sketch the drawing onto the wood and then carve it out. When you are carving the wood out it makes it really difficult to get some of the details. So in order to do impressive work like Mr Noda one needs to be a highly skilled artist with great talents. So here is some of his work

Now if we just look at this piece we can see that even though it is a print it has a great deal of details. Even the texture around the person has nice details. Noda uses wood to make his prints and he also uses silk sheets. He likes to use these things because it adds texture to the background of his prints without him actually having to do it. Noda is very interesting because all of his prints are a represintaion of his life. If he is at a place or location that he likes he will take a picture of it and turn that picture into a print. His art is like what we might consider to be a diary.

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This is another example of what Noda prints look like. He basically turns e erything he sees into a print. Now I don't know if this is a good thing because of the whole concept of supply and demand. If he continues to spit out hundreds of prints one erything that he sees or experiences then who is going to want it if there are hundreds of them. Something that is rare people want but if they're a dime a dozen then people are going to apreciate them less and less. So in my opinion he should tone it down a bit and focus on doing big pieces and not a lot of little ones. And by big and small I don't mean size but big as in meaningfully. So overal Noda is awesome just does way too many pieces.

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