Talk:Woodcut

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject countering systemic bias is coming up with a policy proposal for these internal systemic biases. (Wikimachine 22:37, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Systemic Bias 

message: What about the illos in the Wall Street Journal?  19th century books and such?  Did they really cut into blocks of wood still or is there some technique of just making it look like that?
center|300px|thumb|Is this a woodcut?
:Mostly these used metal, but some in fact did use wood - see Wood engraving, and other articles. This article says it is about printmaking. Johnbod (talk) 16:10, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern woodcuts? 

message: There were a series of beautiful images made for Agricola's last and most famous work, De re Metallica.  They delayed publication for a year (and the book came out after his death).  They have a very draftmanlike quality (almost like some doing isometric drawings).  Renaissance use of perspective, I guess.  And lots of content (even at the time) in terms of the lettered labeling of apparatus.  Plus, they just look sort of Escher or Durer like.  Don't they?  
Which do you like best?  (See Commons category for more.)
TCO (talk) 17:49, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  De re metallica 

message: Article claims that (regarding chiaroscuro woodcuts) "According to one definition of the term, they were first invented by Lucas Cranach in Germany in 1507" without providing a citation to back up this claim.  There is no such claim in the Lucas Cranach the Elder article.
If justification for it can't be found, surely this claim should be deleted?  — so I added a citation needed thingy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art citation shows an example of a chiaroscuro print by Ugo da Carpi, dated only "mid-1520s" and does not justify the claim "first made in Italy by Ugo da Carpi before 1516".  It does however state "Ugo da Carpi was the first Italian artist to experiment with the multiblock colored woodcut."
I have therefore deleted the claim of "before 1516" since no citation justifying that claim has been provided.
Date given for Hans Burgkmair's invention of the technique is unreferenced, but in line with other information (although Cranach date is also unreferenced).  I added a citation needed thingy.
Michael F 1967 (talk) 01:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chiaroscuro woodcuts 

message: In old books, one frequently finds mention of "spirited woodcuts" - I have looked at some and it does not seem to mean that the drawing shows great spirit (is lively) - in fact there are mentions of spirited woodcuts for initial capitals in texts so I get the impression that it is an old specialist printing term. Any ideas? Shyamal (talk) 05:33, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd never heard of this, but via google I see what you mean. It's almost all auction or sale catalogues, & I think just a bookseller's cliche for "nice" or "lively" - ie crude but charming. Johnbod (talk) 06:02, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks , I checked around and you are right, the general opinion is that "spirited" is a tad overused adjective. Shyamal (talk) 04:59, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spirited woodcuts 

message: The spread of woodcut and how it's influenced different parts of the world is super interesting and I think it should be part of this page! This page had it's influences in European culture but it's been heavily used in other parts of the world such as Latin American, Korea, Russia, India, etc. I added in a section about Mexico. Avvaik92 (talk) 23:36, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Asian use is mainly covered by woodblock printing etc - eg ukiyo-e, following the normal terminology (as the article says).  Much of the rest really come under popular print, Lubok etc. The Mexican stuff is ok, but rather unbalances the article, which concentrates on technical developments - it might be better in its own article. Johnbod (talk) 00:31, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woodcuts throughout the world