2024 spitzack satisfaction guaranteed cat fish woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino linocut
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- Artist website (Charles Spitzack)
The title 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' frames this 2024 mokuhanga as a wry commercial parody, while the cat-and-fish pairing draws on imagery that has appeared in Japanese woodblock printing since Kuniyoshi's nineteenth-century cat compositions. Where Kuniyoshi's cats often parodied human figures through anthropomorphic role-play, Spitzack's pairing of cat and fish operates in a related register — predator and prey reframed as a transaction or service offering. The composition likely uses solid color blocks for the figures with patterning carved into the woodblocks to suggest fur, scales, or background texture. Mokuhanga's water-based pigments produce the matte, slightly absorbent surface that distinguishes the medium from oil-based Western relief printing, lending these humorous subjects a quieter visual register than poster-style equivalents would carry. The piece sits within Spitzack's broader body of cat-themed prints from 2024, the year of his International Mokuhanga Conference recognition. The tagline-style title indicates the playful commercial language that runs through his contemporary printmaking.
Mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock)
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
2024 spitzack satisfaction guaranteed cat fish woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino linocut was created by Charles Spitzack.
2024 spitzack satisfaction guaranteed cat fish woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino linocut depicts fish and cats.
