Diary: Nov. 7th '68 (#2)

Noda TetsuyaWW-1963-029874

1963·Woodblock and silkscreen prints·81.1 × 78.7 cm (31 15/16 × 31 in.)

<p>Almost all of Noda Tetsuya’s prints bear the title <em>Diary</em>, as the images document his experiences on a particular day. For <a href="https://www.artic.edu/collection?q=november&artist_ids=Noda+Tetsuya">these prints</a>, the artist used woodblocks for the chair and ground, and then used stencils of photographs made with a scanner for the figures. Although the two prints depict figures of different genders, it seems that Noda used the same blocks for the chair in both prints.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1963
Medium: Woodblock and silkscreen prints
Dimensions: 81.1 × 78.7 cm (31 15/16 × 31 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Noda Tetsuya

Artist

Noda Tetsuya

Printmaking

Tetsuya Noda is a contemporary artist, printmaker and educator. He is widely considered to be Japan’s most important living print-artist, and one of the most successful contemporary print artists in the world. He is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of the Arts. Noda is most well-known for his visual autobiographical works done as a series of woodblock, print, and silkscreened diary entries that capture moments in daily life. His innovative method of printmaking involves photographs scanned through a mimeograph machine and then printed the images over the area previously printed by traditional woodblock print techniques onto the Japanese paper. Although this mixed-media technique is quite prosaic today, Noda was the first artist to initiate this breakthrough. Noda is the nephew of Hideo Noda an oil painter and muralist.

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