{"id":4383,"date":"2011-09-22T07:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T04:55:58","slug":"art-fest-gyotaku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/09\/art-fest-gyotaku\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Fest &#8211; Gyotaku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second part of this <a title=\"Previous post on Alexandria Art Festival\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/09\/art-fest-paper-cutting\/\" target=\"_blank\">two-part post<\/a> about two artists who stood out among the crowd at Old Town Alexandria&#8217;s Art Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 &#8211;\u00a0 <a title=\"Jim Roberts - Gyotaku\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reeldreamsfishprints.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Roberts does Gyotaku<\/a> = Japanese for Fish (gyo) + Rubbings (taku). He had a large triptych that I wish I had photographed of what looked like a large grouper. It was wonderful and was printed on handmade rice paper.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4421\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gytoaku_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4421 \" title=\"Gytoaku_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gytoaku_1.png\" alt=\"Jim Roberts, Gytoaku - as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"479\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gytoaku_1.png 532w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gytoaku_1-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Roberts, Gytoaku print starts with a fresh catch, in this case grouper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perhaps you may remember doing fish prints at camp? Well, this takes it to whole new level and scale (no pun intended). What I like most about his prints are actually seeing the scales. This brings reality to the artistic print that can&#8217;t be overlooked. It adds character to the print that would not exist without the subject. In this sense, you can fish for your dinner in a double way &#8212; both immediate and with the future purchase of prints.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4420\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4420\" title=\"Gyotaku_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_2.png\" alt=\"Jim Roberts_Gyotaku print as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"372\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_2.png 372w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_2-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gyotaku print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4419\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4419 \" title=\"Gyotaku_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_3.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Roberts book on Gyotaku as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"486\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_3.jpg 608w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gyotaku_3-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Roberts, book on Gyotaku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Not all of his prints are black and white or monochromatic. I love these colors in his fish prints below and the movement of water suggested with the ink or paint used in the process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4418\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Yellowtails-rising_Gyotaku.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4418 \" title=\"Yellowtails rising_Gyotaku\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Yellowtails-rising_Gyotaku.png\" alt=\"Jim Roberts yellowtails Gyotaku, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"463\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Yellowtails-rising_Gyotaku.png 514w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Yellowtails-rising_Gyotaku-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Roberts, Yellowtails Rising, Gyotaku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4416\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rainbow-trout_gyotaku.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4416 \" title=\"rainbow-trout_gyotaku\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rainbow-trout_gyotaku.png\" alt=\"Jim Roberts rainbow-trout_gyotaku, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"486\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rainbow-trout_gyotaku.png 810w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/rainbow-trout_gyotaku-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Roberts, Rainbow-Trout, Gyotaku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m partial to blue and green myself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4417\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/In-the-zone_Gyotaku.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4417 \" title=\"In the zone_Gyotaku\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/In-the-zone_Gyotaku.png\" alt=\"Jim Roberts, In the Zone Gyatoku, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"460\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/In-the-zone_Gyotaku.png 511w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/In-the-zone_Gyotaku-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Roberts, In the Zone, Gyatoku<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Radiohead&#8217;s new music upload, <a title=\"Youtube - Radiohead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B74uDKMMoPE&amp;feature=uploademail\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mrs Magpie &#8211; Modeselektor RMX<\/em> <\/a>to <a title=\"Kick Start the Weekend posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/music\/kick-start-the-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kick Start the Weekend<\/a> is below. They are appearing as <a title=\"Saturday Night Live\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/saturday-night-live\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live&#8217;s<\/a> musical guest this coming weekend to kick off their new fall season. It will be interesting to hear what, if any, of these new songs or remixes that they might play. Their music has been heading in a <a title=\"Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dubstep\" target=\"_blank\">dubstep<\/a> direction. Here&#8217;s a pretty <a title=\"Youtube - Dubstep exclusive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=euf_FvjhEHA\" target=\"_blank\">fascinating video from alberito80<\/a> to help visually explain, as it mixes this electronic music style with fine art masterpieces. See if you can recognize some of the paintings. Here is some of Radiohead&#8217;s newer music.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Youtube - Radiohead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8&amp;feature=relmfu\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Lotus Flower<\/em><\/a> (+ disjointed dancing that a bit disconcerting if not mesmerizing to watch).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Youtube - Radiohead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6iFS22yyXj8&amp;feature=relmfu\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Supercolider<\/em><\/a>, which I like and has some meditative repetitiveness that is more typical of their older music.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"259\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/B74uDKMMoPE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of Art Is Everywhere discussing another talented artist at old Town&#8217;s Art Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,92,69,63,90,6,543,47],"tags":[1939,3,1940,1937,1927,1928,303,1938],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-design","category-everyday","category-family","category-inspiration","category-kick-start-the-weekend","category-music","tag-alexandria-arts-festival","tag-artiseverywhere","tag-dubstep","tag-fish-prints","tag-gyotaku","tag-jim-roberts","tag-radiohead","tag-snl-saturday-night-live"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gyotaku<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The art of Jim Roberts using Gyotaku, fish prints, on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/09\/art-fest-gyotaku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gyotaku\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The art of Jim Roberts using Gyotaku, fish prints, on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/09\/art-fest-gyotaku\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-22T11:34:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T04:55:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Gytoaku_1.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/art-fest-gyotaku\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2011\\\/09\\\/art-fest-gyotaku\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Art Fest &#8211; 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