Comment by tynan
7 years ago
Artelino.com is one of the best sites to purchase at (recommended to me by the creator of ukiyo-e.org).
I got into woodblock prints just because I happened to see a great exhibit at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Before that they all sort of looked the same to me.
Browse the artelino listings and find stuff that you like. Values for woodblocks tend to not really go up or down, so buy them just because you like looking at them.
The value of everything tends to not go up or down...until it does. I think woodblocks have a potentially larger market due to their relationship to anime and other parts of Japanese culture and past. I have a watercolor done by an artist who colored woodblock prints. He painted it in occupied China in “service” with an occupying Japanese force during WWII. Out of protest, he painted the landscape instead of the Japanese forces. I don’t know whether it’s monetery value will go up, but interest in the world wars has.
I love that site. Glad to see it and woodblocks mentioned here.