Carole Mathey is the assistant director of the Richard F. Melissa Schulenberg is an associate professor of art and art history and teaches printmaking, drawing and artists’ books. Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III), Japanese, 1786-1865, The exhibition also includes a selection of traditional Japanese woodcuts, with accompanying curatorial text panels by students from Flint Professor Dorothy Limouze’s special topics seminar on museums and collections. There was no predetermined theme, and artists responded to the call with images of waterscapes, studies of color and light, and abstract forms from nature. Melissa also initiated an exchange portfolio, 20 Artists/20 Views, which includes work by international artists from the mokuhanga conference. 1830), the iconic ukiyo-e print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. The exhibition’s title, Riding the Great Wave, refers to The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, or simply The Great Wave (ca. In June of 2011, Melissa Schulenberg and Carole Mathey traveled to Kyoto, Japan, to attend the 1st International Mokuhanga Conference, where they met numerous artists, 12 of whom were invited to participate in an exhibition at St. Later ukiyo-e prints from the 1800s incorporated mokuhanga to depict vivid battle scenes, actors and courtesans in richly designed silk kimonos, transparent landscapes, and birds and animals from the zodiac. Dating back to the 8th century, mokuhanga techniques were first used to print Buddhist texts and images.

Unlike western woodblock printing that employs oil-based inks, Japanese mokuhanga is a chemical- and solvent-free process that uses water-based inks, such as watercolors, gouaches and vegetable dyes. Lecture by Yoonmi Nam, associate professor of visual art, University of Kansas, Monday, March 25, at 7:00 p.m., in Griffiths 123 Ralph Kiggell, Yotsuya Schoolgirls, 1992, mokuhanga print, 17/40 The Rut | Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (rmef.Monday, March 18, 2013 to Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Horning trees and wallowing in mud spreads his scent even farther.

To a bull, spraying himself with urine is like putting on his coolest clothes. Our noses may not appreciate such elk perfume, but in the animal world, scent is like advertising with billboards and flashing neon signs. Bulls spray themselves with urine, soaking their belly, chest and mane. Woodblock printing in Japan is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. The belly-deep grunt at the end of an elk’s bugle also shows off his size, and seems designed to advertise to cows nearby.Ī big, confident bull will spend a good deal of time rubbing trees, wallowing and flooding the area with his scent. Red deer in Europe and Asia have a lower frequency bugle, called a “roar,“ that travels better in thick forest. The high frequency of an elk’s bugle can also carry far over open country- the kind of prairies and savannahs elk evolved in. The bigger the bull, the deeper and louder he can bugle. Genetics, old age and poor nutrition may also cause a bull to have abnormal antlers.Ī bull advertises his size and dominance to cows and rival bulls through his bugle. If his antlers are crooked or misshapen, he may be sick, have parasites or be injured. Perfectly matched and symmetrical antlers also show off how healthy he is. The size of a bull’s antlers shows his age and his success at foraging and survival. But he also hopes to discourage weaker bulls from challenging him. First and foremost the bull is trying to attract cows. A bulls’ rutting behavior sends several messages.

Everything about a bull’s display during rut advertises his fitness as a mate and his toughness as an opponent. The biggest bulls are in their prime at 6 to 8 years old. A bull elk during rut spends most of his energy trying to broadcast just how big and superior he is.

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