How to Use woodblock in a Sentence
woodblock
noun- She made a woodblock print.
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On the fourth, a series of woodblock prints in black-and-white.
—Amanda Chemeche, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2023
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Make the stamp by gluing strips of crafts foam to a woodblock.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Nov. 2023
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The back of my grandfather’s skull is as flat as a woodblock.
—Longreads, 1 Aug. 2017
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In the 1830s, when it was made, a woodblock print in Edo—now Tokyo—cost roughly the same as a bowl of noodles.
—Susan Delson, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
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The show is small, consisting of just 18 woodblock prints.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
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Above the bed was a woodblock print of squirrels huddling on a winter branch.
—Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 Jan. 2018
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Above the bed was a woodblock print of squirrels huddling on a winter branch.
—Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 6 June 2017
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The paintings have the look of liquefied woodblock prints, firm and flowing at once.
—Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
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The third is funny, with woodblocks and even a typewriter.
—Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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On a visit to Japan, he was introduced to the ukiyo-e, or woodblock prints, of the master artist Hokusai.
—Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
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Japonisme,’’ a craze for all things Japanese, was the result, and the Western vogue for woodblock prints was a big part of it.
—Steven Litt, cleveland, 31 May 2020
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Simon showed us prints that the artist Ryan Schneider had made with chainsaw-cut woodblocks.
—Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
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The artist’s original creation is a woodblock print donning ink and subtle shades of beige, white and blue.
—Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Dec. 2022
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In Japan, snow was both subject and symbol in woodblock prints, where the washi paper was sometimes left bare to create a field of white.
—New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
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Samuels employs woodblock prints, drawings, and words on layers of paper and silk.
—Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
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Case in point: The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, a woodblock print that shows a lady going to third base with a couple of octopuses.
—Cady Drell, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2017
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Supplementing the huge woodblocks are nearly 100 prints that scale from little to tiny.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
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Many of the woodblock prints were lost or destroyed, as Obata sought to select just one to create his limited edition of 100 prints.
—Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
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Each piece is a single unique print, exhibited with the woodblock it was created from.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
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The most popular are stretched canvases, woodblock prints, and metal prints.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2022
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Close at hand, one of Katsushika Hokusai’s historic woodblock prints of Mount Fuji is on display.
—Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2018
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The woodblock print depicts a giant wave crashing into a trio of boats off the coast of Kanagawa, but there’s been a lot of debate over the years as to what kind of wave exactly is depicted in the piece.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2019
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The woodblock pulse is sometimes taken up by clanging cowbell, slashed chords, or the ominous, clocklike ticking of bowsticks against strings.
—Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
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Make your own woodblock print at the tiny Kamigata Ukiyoe Museum, which feels more like a house and contains historic artworks, plus workshops on the top floor.
—Danielle Demetriou, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 May 2020
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To me, this 1917 woodblock print, in which a women gracefully shields herself from a sun shower, conveys the fragile beauty of gardens in early spring,...
—Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2017
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Her work has the look of a woodblock print (intentionally) and provide a deep dive into knowing what’s underfoot.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
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Astrup would return to this scene several times, including in his woodblock prints.
—Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 26 June 2021
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These motifs are printed on a single piece of paper using woodblocks and then hand-colored using stencils.
—Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 20 June 2018
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Elsewhere, two artists use black-and-white woodblock prints that impart a graphic, cartoon-like quality to their subjects that also heightens the message.
—Diane M. Bacha, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Feb. 2018
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