Đông Hồ Prints
ドンホー版画 / 17th century– / Style / Popular Prints
The woodblock prints of Vietnam's Đông Hồ village: printed with natural pigments on dó paper coated with ground seashell, New Year pictures like 'The Rat's Wedding' carrying village philosophy in satire and auspice.
Shell-powder paper that glimmers / A limited natural palette / Satire through animals / Renewed each New Year
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Đông Hồ workshops / dó paper and shell pigment / the contrast with Hàng Trống prints