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Zane Fix is an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York. The art of Zane Fix blends both the intensity and simplicity of Japanese woodblock prints with the pop sensibility of early and mid-20th century western pop and commercial art. Fix began honing his skills of draftsmanship as a child by interpreting the works of Hokusai, Sharaku and Utamaro. He attended Cooper Union School of Architecture. In 1997, he traveled to Kyoto, Japan and began on the path that led him to his current incarnation as the guru of Jap Pop Art. Original pieces are labor and time-intensive, utilizing techniques he learned as an architectural draftsman and apprentice Sumi-e painter and woodblock cutter. Fix uses a brush, pen, ink and wax pencils on various handmade rice papers. In his own words “It’s all done by hand, no computer magic, baby!” Popular works include his Gunslinging Geisha, Audrey Hepburn in Kabuki Makeup, and David Bowie as "some cat from Japan."

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Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.

Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.

Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.

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