Sentences with phrase «carved wood blocks»

This depiction of the world as Ptolemy knew it, published in a 1482 edition of Geographia, was printed from carved wood blocks.

Baselitz enjoys the struggle involved in carving the wood block, and he uses the evidence of this battle, along with the texture of the wood grain, to expressive advantage in the prints themselves.

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When Gutenberg was a young man, someone in Western Europe invented block printing (already used for centuries in China), in which «printers» carved outlines of words or pictures on a block of wood and then inked them for the «press.»

This was a laborious process that involved carving letters or pictures onto a block of wood, inking the finished product, and pressing it onto vellum (a surface made from calfskin) or paper (invented in China and introduced to Europe by Arab traders in the thirteenth century).

...» Each design is transferred to a block of wood (or linoleum, rubber, drywall) to be carved.

She works in India's age - old technique of block printing where the designs are applied by hand with stamps carved from wood.

One that we meet is her ex-fiance Kevin (Owen Wilson), a blond multimillionaire who, for the sister's wedding, has carved an altar out of a solid block of wood.

The breed is depicted throughout the centuries in paintings, block prints, wood carvings, line drawings and tapestries.

Materials were sourced locally and all furnishings created with traditional skills: huge marble baths carved from single blocks of Romblon marble and wooden baths crafted using traditional boat - building techniques; local wood and rattan sourced from sustainable supplies; cushions made from tribal fabrics, woven by craftspeople from Mindanao in the South; and intricate wooden chests carved by indigenous Palawan woodcarvers.

The installation is completed by a large ballerina figure, carved from a single block of wawa wood, removed from the imagery behind by the nature of her pose, costume and physical standing.

This honest approach to art making is strongly evident in a new column sculpture by Stephan Balkenhol whose human form is hand - carved out of a solid block of wawa wood.

Each head was carved from a block of wood and overlaid with sections of found leather - often sourced from articles of clothing or even boxing gloves - which are sewn, nailed, or zippered together.

Beginning as a block of wood carved by the artist with chainsaw, the classic female form personified within Venus III bears the artist's angled marks before the sculpture was cast into bronze and finished with patina and paint.

The print was made by carving a single block of wood into pieces and inking each one with a different color.

Starker in color and contrast than his etchings, Shapiro's woodcuts also show off superb carving and a heightened wood grain that make the block itself a central figure of the works.

Woodcut: An image is sketched on a block of wood before the surface is carved into with gouging tools.

Lot 247A, «Oak Armed Exercise,» is a radial - arm saw carved block of wood with four pairs of lugs projecting, one pair from each face of a square along a horizontal shaft.

In the 1920s and 1930s, direct carving — cutting figures out of a block of stone or a lump of wood — was seen as the purest, most challenging way to make a sculpture.

Carving sculpture out of a block of stone or wood was central to Henry Moore's practice throughout his career.

A print made from an image carved into a block of wood cut along the grain.

For example, Browning's unpainted, 18 - inch - square interlocking rectangles hand carved out of a single block of wood are lost along a stretch of wall in the shadow of Pope.L, aka William Pope.L's giant, pink structure Claim (Whitney Version)(2017).

Areas of instruction include painting (realism to abstract); drawing (life drawing, anatomy and design); sculpture (clay, wood carving, stone carving, assemblage and casting); printmaking (etching, wood block, silkscreen, lithography); mixed media (3D compositions); welding (plasma cutting, Oxy - acetylene, MIG and TIG welding); bronze casting (lost wax process) and literature of art.

He experimented with the technically demanding art of carving linoleum blocks and, eventually, woodblocks for both wood engravings and woodcuts.

She was famous for her complex woodblock prints of oriental carpets that required multiple intricately carved blocks of wood.