Playful, with an improvisational quality, the woodcuts reflect Schwartz's poems.
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You can count fashion magazines, Japanese woodcuts, and Modigliani among her influences.
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The fine press bestiary features poems by Leonard Schwartz accompanied by Simon Carr's woodcuts.
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Yelchin's art, evocative of kookily surreal medieval woodcuts, is perfectly suited to the task.
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Dual retrospectives of paintings and woodcuts underscore Frankenthaler's restless experimentation in image and materials.
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Her scratchy black and white lines look like German expressionist woodcuts, something from Otto Dix.
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Kandinsky's formal experiments with reductive woodcuts, Courtney said, particularly helped pave the road towards abstraction.
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Winkfield's outlined shapes share something with the painter Nicholas Krushenick, who was inspired by Japanese woodcuts.
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These took on a variety of material forms, from woodcuts to broadside sheets to engravings to lithographs.
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There is no pastiche in what she has done; the composition owes nothing to Japanese painting or woodcuts.
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A companion show, "No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts," showcases experiments that stretched the medium, resulting in painterly images.
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One of the oldest medieval woodcuts features skeletons at lead printing presses, denoting the deadly damage of their work.
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For instance, in Diana Morales Galicia's terrifying woodcuts, the artist depicts twisting, suffocating cages for dogs and humans alike.
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She didn't go to art school, but discovered printmaking accidentally while in Thailand, where she learned how to make woodcuts.
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Welch organized the exhibition, which draws on etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, engravings, and other works on paper at the Blanton Museum.
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Like Hokusai's woodcuts, they're presented without additional commentary and identified only by location, though Ries didn't adhere to the original sites.
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The principal author of the woodcuts was almost certainly Benedetto Bordon, a Paduan miniaturist, draftsman, geographer and publisher of ancient texts.
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On the wall of of an apartment in Midtown Manhattan designed by David Mann are two untitled woodcuts by Donald Judd.
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The woodcuts were inspired by the work of Ernst Barlach, a German sculptor who himself created a series of "Beggar" sculptures.
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Sumptuous costuming and set work is combined with dazzling special effects which draw inspiration from everything from antique woodcuts to Georges Méliès.
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In honor of the five-hundredth anniversary, the excellent German art-book publisher Taschen has produced a facsimile with spectacular colored woodcuts.
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Relief prints, mainly woodcuts and wood engravings, are created by carving into wood and cutting away the areas not to be printed.
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Mansudae works in a variety of mediums: woodcuts, oil paintings, charcoal drawings, embroideries, and even jeweled paintings made with semi-precious stones.
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Almost immediately, users began digitally inserting the character into history: they created Slender Man in hieroglyphs and faux 20153th-century German woodcuts.
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Round woodcuts with a format similar to Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, heavy with text, have been hung to dry on a clothesline.
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It was only until two years later that he first started working with the medium himself, creating many etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs.
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And the multi-colored woodcuts of Ellen Thesleff, which were done in Florence, Italy, are smaller than a postcard and full of detail.
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As printing developed and became widespread, animals of varying accuracy flourished in books, whether in the form of early woodcuts or later engravings.
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His most persuasive images draw on social realism and early modern woodcuts to create a stirring visual analogue to the BPP's ideological platform.
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Salamander: A Bestiary by Leonard Schwartz, woodcuts by Simon Carr is published by Chax Press and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK This scrappy nonprofit is New York's only space devoted to etchings, woodcuts, monotypes and all sorts of printed images.
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Walking through the galleries at the Pulitzer, I kept thinking of the textures in Käthe Kollwitz's charcoal portraits and woodcuts of abstracted, everyday suffering.
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And Brussels gallery Rodolphe Janssen has an array of lovely woodcuts, paintings, and ceramic sculptures by the twin artist duo of Gert and Uwe Tobias.
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When the artist is not making prints to be hung indoors, or linocuts and woodcuts, he takes to the streets to spread his visual message.
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In one of her woodcuts, Büttner has carved out two hands; an oval signifying a beggar's lap; and a third shape standing for a veil.
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Skaryna was an excellent engraver, too: his vivid woodcuts, featuring Biblical figures in traditional Belarusian costume, meant that illiterate citizens could begin to grasp religious ideas.
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Mr. Shirai nicely shuffles in the back stories of several workers, and his shots of sky, sea and early morning landscapes could fit amid Hokusai woodcuts.
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During the Renaissance and Reformation periods, there was a tradition of recounting the lives of virtuous women often in visual formats, such as paintings and woodcuts.
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He also embraced the hottest technology of the late 2212th century: printmaking, which allowed the emperor to broadcast his military prowess through books and monumental woodcuts.
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Their shapes — not exactly circular — have some kinship with the off-kilter quasi-circles in Jean Arp's sculptures, paintings, and woodcuts; they also obliquely suggest gibbous moons.
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Some volumes are exceptionally beautiful, such as German cartographer Sebastian Münster's 1533 Horologiographia, the first book devoted to sundials, with woodcuts attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Illustrating these texts were artworks — mostly linocuts and woodcuts — by the likes of Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Kokoschka, Franz Marc, and László Moholy-Nagy.
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With "No Rules," the show surveying Frankenthaler's woodcuts, the curator Jay Clarke demonstrates how well a refractory medium can suit an artist who favors intuition and chance.
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And I haven't even said anything yet about the lithographs and woodcuts, or his two large wool designs that were executed by Lise Gujer and Erna Schilling.
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Dominated by black pigment and flurries of cut (white) lines and angular contour lines, the woodcuts reveal another side of Coffey's art, inspired by her interest in myth.
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Zarina Hashmi, who had previously worked with woodcuts, travelled to Paris in 1963 to study printmaking at Atelier 17, where Krishna Reddy and S.W. Hayter encouraged her work.
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A video and an illustrated brochure help to explain the many different processes that printmakers have used over time, from the oldest woodcuts to more recent multimedia combinations.
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Roberts cites illustrator and puzzle designer Christopher Manson, known for his detailed woodcuts, as an inspiration, along with the work of Edward Gorey, Gustave Doré, and M.C. Escher.
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So this exhibition of more than 80 works makes a case for giving him a closer look, from his pioneering woodcuts to his 1907 rendering of Gertrude Stein.
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The text, originally written in Latin but translated to English a few years later, was accompanied by woodcuts of nude swimmers performing a series of now unfamiliar strokes.
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The woodcuts that he'd had made of the creature were now of no use to him, he said, so he'd allow them to be reproduced, free of charge.
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"Aside from political motivations, broadsides and pamphlets — decorated with a familiar set of woodcuts — were the easiest way to illustrate our basic fears and desires," as Crabb writes.
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More feminine and distinctive than the broad, stereotypically masculine brushstrokes of much Abstract Expressionism, these forms morph into figures reminiscent of traditional Korean woodcuts in her later collage work.
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Erik Shirai's "shots of sky, sea and early morning landscapes could fit amid Hokusai woodcuts," even if the film occasionally drags, Daniel M. Gold wrote in The New York Times.
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The works' constituent forms — mountains, trees, waves — are rendered in historical styles, such as Japanese woodcuts and nature-guide illustrations, crammed alongside and atop one another in slightly implausible configurations.
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Additionally, this exhibition will showcase Vallotton's woodcuts of the 1890s which showed him to be a compelling and talented printmaker whose politics were a very palpable part of his practice.
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Skeletons and cadavers draped with putrified flesh cavorted with the living in murals and woodcuts, mingling with people from across social classes as reminders of the fate they all shared.
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Cather said that the novel's title comes from Hans Holbein the Younger's " Dance of Death " woodcuts, in which Death summons men and women both mighty and humble, a bishop among them.
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The chronology of Frayling's plates jumps around freely, between grindhouse film posters, New Yorker cartoons, postage stamps and the excellent woodcuts Lynd Kendall Ward created for a 1934 edition of the novel.
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At the same time that Spain began exploring (and "discovering") the inhabited Americas, European cartographers focused on creating maps with ever-increasing geometrical precision and then reproducing those maps via engravings and woodcuts.
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The emphasis on female beauty popularized the art of the Floating World with both male and female viewers: the paintings and woodcuts were a powerful medium for disseminating ideals of beauty to women.
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Some of these blank pages remain in the final 1926 version, but many were later filled in by Gauguin with his beautiful monotypes, collages, watercolors, woodcuts, and photographs, while he was in the Marquesas.
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Two small, illuminating exhibitions of work by Helen Frankenthaler at the Clark Art Institute, one of paintings and the other of woodcuts, together suggest nature lurks throughout the imagery of this ostensibly unyielding formalist.
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Although she made a greater number of lithographs and (particularly) monotypes, both more conducive to spontaneity, the woodcuts, which span the years 1973 to 2009, offer a fascinating overview of her thinking and process.
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One of the high points of "Before the Fall" is a suite of woodcuts by Wilhelm Traeger, whose street scenes of Vienna in 1932 seem like an X-ray of a society on the edge.
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He was also heavily criticized for erroneously passing off the above three woodcuts of embryos as distinct species when they were actually identical copies, a mistake that haunted his reputation for the rest of his career.
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With its flat patterns, sinuous lines and entwining forms, "Belladonna" refracts traditional Japanese graphic art through the prism of the Art Nouveau or Vienna Secession, two movements that were in some ways inspired by Japanese woodcuts.
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A CURIOUS HAND: THE PRINTS OF HENRI-CHARLES GUÉRARD (1846-1897) Guérard made etchings for Manet and a variety of innovations within modern printmaking based on the 19th-century French craze for Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts.
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Hanging everywhere are paintings and woodcuts done by her beloved aunt Rachel Reckitt, a fascinating figure who, on the one hand, was an avant-garde artist and, on the other, raised horses and rode to hounds.
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Even so, his style brings together the seemingly disparate genres of classical woodcuts and bucolic landscape painting with low-brow street art and contemporary cartoons, making it a distinct melange of all these different styles and more.
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Full of tense moments and complicated family dynamics, and illustrated in stark black-and-white by Revel that invoke everything from early American woodcuts to Chick tracts, Wendigo is a 70-page love letter to folkloric horror.
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The exhibition No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts is installed in a separate wing of the Clark's dazzling Tadao Ando redesign, a distance that allows the artist's accomplishments in one medium to sink in before plunging into another.
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It included a large painting, "Rharian Plain" (1988), and a selection of woodcuts on rice paper from her artist's book, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (1988), translated by Apostolos Athanassakis, as well as selection of recent self-portraits.
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Meese is partial to thick, heavy lines and angular shapes in his drawings and paintings, both of which are characteristic of German Expressionism, particularly the paintings and woodcuts of such artists as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Erich Heckel.
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Lauren Castillo's perfect illustrations — warm, deftly composed, with the sensual allure of woodcuts (she seems to have combined foam monoprints with ink and digital work) — are so captivating they might on their own overcome a ho-hum story.
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A series of acrid-hued woodcuts of a colossal, anthropomorphized rat riding two horses over a cityscape, and a rat hand-painted inside a huge pipe lying near the painting underscore the vermin-like nature of human civilization.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads An anthropomorphic wolf carrying bags of money, sporting fish hooks for fingers and legs reminiscent of thick screws is perhaps one of the most bizarre woodcuts to emerge in the 17th century.
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Discoveries include the marvelous woodcuts of Lucia Vernarelli, a member of the Redstockings; Faith Ringgold's 1971 poster in support of Angela Davis, "America Free Angela"; and newsletters from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, including one memorializing Audre Lorde (1934-1992).
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In "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge," M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin adopt a novel story-telling device — the tale unfolds from two different perspectives of a goblin and an elf, one in prose, and one in illustrations that resemble medieval woodcuts.
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A satirical image reflecting on monopolies of goods like wine and tobacco, it is certainly one that makes you pause and stare when flipping through Graven Images, a delightful survey of centuries-old woodcuts recently published by the British Library.
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In a suite of four woodcuts called "Towards the Forest," we can at least see his exploratory, mad-scientist moves as he, somehow — I couldn't figure out how — lays down veils of diaphanous color and makes images come and go before our eyes.
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His first antiwar book, it has nine linocuts representing hundreds of years of showdowns, and the current project is in a way an extension of this initial work, his illustrations in pen and ink and on woodcuts extending this history of bloodshed.
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The book, which ended up as abundantly illustrated with photographs, watercolors, clippings, drawings and woodcuts, was based on his travel journal with parts drawn from Franco-Belgian trader, explorer, diplomat and ethnographer Jacques-Antoine Moerenhout's 140 book Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan.
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In "Latina" (2017) by Xiomara Garay, a collage of nine woodcuts of a woman seen from the back with her hair plaited in a long braid, are rendered in variegated brown skin tones that celebrate the beauty of all shades within the diaspora.
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The goldsmithing clearly played into his distinct drawing style; designs for goblets and fantastical water fountains are crammed with minutely observed flourishes, grotesqueries, and tightly coiled decorative curls that anticipate the densely articulated surfaces of his engravings and woodcuts, consuming the pictorial space.
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To these concerns, she added a love of mountainous landscapes and Japanese art, particularly of Hiroshige, whom she acknowledges in the largely red and blue, "Hiroshige Revisited" (1988), which recalled the use of vermillion and Prussian blue in 18th– and 19th-century Japanese woodcuts.
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The show's capstones are small-scale prints made over the course of the artist's career, which comprise the portfolio, Sternberg: A Life in Woodcuts (1991), whose directness and handcrafted autobiographical details are fitting testimonies to his ethic of giving patient witness to the world.
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But, in Marshall's curated selection, to see works by Charles White, Horace Pippin, Georges Seurat, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, George Tooker, Willem de Kooning, woodcuts by Yoshitoshi, photgraphs by Roy DeCarava, and a Senufo oracle figure, in the same room — with no hierarchy — was great.
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The images are made as I make all of my work, by collaging bits and pieces of 1800s woodcuts and engravings with my own drawn elements and allowing the process of putting these fragments together to build the picture as much as any sort of planning.
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Small format works, like materially inscribed and manipulated picture postcards, photographs, linocuts and woodcuts, small run graphic art magazines could not only be displayed in pop up shows at short notice, but could also be packed up at a moment's notice to avoid censorship and imprisonment.
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The German printer Erhard Ratdolt, often credited as the first publisher of scientific and mathematical material, clearly understood the power of visuals to boost public appeal: he spruced up Hyginus's texts — printed in beautiful Gothic type — by commissioning an artist to create woodcuts of each constellation.
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Greg Garrett: If you look at some of those woodcuts and fresco paintings, what typically happens is that Death reaches out with one bony paw and yanks the living off to their just reward, whether they're an emperor, the pope, or a farmer in a field.
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Numerous Greek and Roman authors lay behind Francesco Colonna's erudite erotic novel "Hypnerotomachia Polifili" (Poliphili's Strife with Love in a Dream), whose text and 172 classically inspired, skillfully integrated woodcuts provided artists with a compendium of reference materials for ancient architecture, ruins, statues, inscriptions, hieroglyphs, landscapes, gardens, figures and narrative scenes.
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There's something very medieval about his forms and his style; the monstrous and grotesquely sexual demons stalking through everyday scenes recall the paintings and woodcuts of an earlier era; the images built for symbolic meaning rather than representational accuracy might be the last remnants of a thousand-year-old allegorical tradition.
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Over the years, she has repeatedly embedded herself, like a war reporter, inside meat factories and brought out horrifying front-line images, some imagined from a dying animal's perspective, as in her 2017 book of woodcuts called "The Animals' Vegan Manifesto," which is pocket-size but ticks like a bomb.
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While many of the portraits from this period incorporate the cropped perspectives and jagged linearity in Japanese woodcuts of aristocrats and courtesans, they just as often borrow heavily from the hyper-individualized, introspective examples of the Dutch Golden Age portraiture of Rembrandt and Vermeer, painters van Gogh had long admired.
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Notable at the Cleveland Museum of Art are a series of huge woodcuts by Kerry James Marshall, Allen Ruppersberg's crisp lightbox photographs of Cleveland, and Marlon de Azambuja's paradoxically whimsical "Brutalismo-Cleveland," an airy little city of found bricks and cinder blocks held up with a menagerie of interesting clamps.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads WILLIAMSTOWN, Massachusetts — The dual exhibitions of Helen Frankenthaler's paintings and woodcuts at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute offer a compact, revelatory, and frequently stunning look at an artist whose reputation has been all too often yoked to a single, if singular, technique.
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Woodcuts by David Driskell, a scholar of African-American art who taught Mr. Adkins at Fisk University, hang in the dining room near prints of women's heads by Lorna Simpson (whose daughter modeled for a painting in the living room by Turiya Adkins, following in her father's footsteps by studying art at Dartmouth).
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In the first years of the twentieth century, young German artists, including Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff—and, less directly, the Austrians Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka—were galvanized by Munch's painterly eloquence and emotional candor, and by his innovative use of woodcuts and other printmaking mediums.
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It is a paradox because the cracking-open of the pictorial imagination is exactly what Frankenthaler's post-stain career was about, and these two exhibitions, As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings and No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts, move deftly across the decades, offering a potent overview of the artist's ever-shifting concerns.
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I work using 1800s woodcuts and engravings, of which I now have thousands from various markets, shops, and online finds, scanning them into Photoshop, where I collage them and add my own drawing to them, layering and manipulating them until I have an image that I hope looks as if it could have always existed.
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Featured among them are hundreds of objects: liturgical vestments; illuminated manuscripts; satirical woodcuts; one of six existing single-sheet printed copies of the 24 theses; the pulpit where Luther last preached; personal belongings, like Luther's traveling spoon and beer stein; and items from recent archaeological excavations in Germany, including household goods and toys linked to Luther's childhood.
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Concurrent retrospectives of the paintings and woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler were presented by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, offering a deep dive into the range of her experimentation beyond the pour technique; and a stunning retrospective of Amedeo Modigliani's drawings, paintings, and sculpture at the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side drove home the artist's self-identification as both an outsider and a Jew.
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