Sentences with phrase «using woodcut»

Born in 1983 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ephrem Solomon observes his environment and presents socio - political works using woodcut and mixed media.
Menezes writes that «it is rare to find an emerging artist who uses woodcut as his main artistic language, or attempts to explore new possibilities of artistic expression within woodcarving.
Judd's work with simple lines began in the 1950s, when he started, with great skill and patience, to create minimal designs using woodcuts.
It was at the Art Student's League that he began to use woodcuts to explore working within a space to create design, rather than imposing design on a particular space.
She later switched to using woodcuts, and then to eraser and charcoal, and added printmaking to her repertory.

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I use both natural and abstract elements as my departure point to create a collection of items that combines my interests in bold, graphic woodcut / relief art, the craft of sewing, and, in particular, nature, giving a nod to mid-Twentieth Century design too.
Indian artisan Aparupa Ghosh applies the designs by hand using traditional woodcut printing techniques.
Indian artisan Aparupa Ghosh applies the design by hand using traditional woodcut printing techniques.
He did woodcuts and the font we used is very similar to ones he made for Cecil Day - Lewis» books.
It's played using a custom controller consisting of actual vintage 19th - century telegraph hardware, and features on - screen visuals made entirely of found 19th - century woodcut illustrations.
The inspiration to use the typographic — a ready - made form — may have come from Nicholas Krushenick's graphic abstractions inspired by Matisse's cut - outs, Japanese woodcuts and comics; Jasper Johns» «alphabets» and «numerals,» which were shown in his groundbreaking debut solo show at Leo Castelli in 1958; and Willem de Kooning's black - and - white paintings «Orestes» and «Zurich» (both 1947).
A major new 3 - D animated film entitled Time Spy, produced in late 2016, will be presented alongside a selection of the woodcuts used to create the film.
«People were really into Rockin» Rollin» Prints» — an annual day - long event in which participants use a two - ton steamroller to print large woodcuts — «and PrintHouston, but we were self - funding that,» Rhodes Fields says.
Frankenthaler has worked with Pace Prints to create four Ukiyo - e plus woodcuts, including «Geisha» (2003), a twenty - three color Ukiyo - e woodcut printed from 15 woodblocks on Torinoko paper and mounted onto Fabriano Classico, as well as «Book of Clouds,» a large - scale print using a combination of aquatint, woodcut and pochoir techniques.
Four additional prints are also included in the exhibition; Geisha (2003), Snow Pines (2004), Japanese Maple (2005), and Weeping Crabapple (2009), which were all printed using only the ukiyo - e woodcut technique.
From his earliest days as an artist, Rauschenberg avidly explored and invented myriad ways of marking paper and canvas, using traditional tools such as paintbrushes, pencils, and woodcut blocks as well as highly unorthodox methods.
Although Baselitz has made prints since the mid-1960s, he initially used the etching and woodcut media primarily to reproduce images from his paintings.
In his first «Eagle» portfolio of 1966, he began to use the print to develop his style, employing a variety of block printing techniques, including woodcut and wood engraving.
Once the celluloid solidified, Margo could alter the surface with standard etching and woodcut tools or use acetone to break down areas of the hardened celluloid.
«My work uses different types of mark making in woodcutting to create altered landscapes where figures exist in a contemplative space.
Over the course of four decades, Donald Judd created hundreds of prints using aquatint, etching, and screenprint techniques though the woodcut was his primary print medium.
Judd's preferred medium was woodcut, which he used right from the beginning; all the prints in this exhibition are woodcut, except a pair of lithographs and a set of screen prints.
It uses the effects of a wash drawing with charcoal in woodcut form to evoke the gray drooping branches and vibrant pink tones of the flowers.
Los Angeles, CA — Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now examines the woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the modeWoodcut 1870 to Now examines the woodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the modewoodcut in terms of its diverse forms and uses in the modern era.
Judd also explored screenprint techniques, sometimes using different techniques to generate the same shape, such as in the case of the parallelogram, which he used in his sculpture as well as in woodcuts, etchings, and aquatints.
Josef Albers, a founding member of the Bauhaus, pioneered print making in the last century, making use of numerous media, including etching, engraving, woodcut, lithography and screen - printing.
Wood engravings differ from woodcuts in that they are created using the endgrain of the wood — a cross-section of a tree trunk or branch — rather than a plank.
First established in 1964 in Barcelona, Polígrafa's renowned workshop was opened in the 1970s, enabling artists to use traditional printing techniques including woodcut, etching, and lithography to realize their ideas and give them the space to experiment and innovate.
Mr. Sims, however, emphasizes the artist's process here by including the working photos and some of the plates used in the various stages involved in creating the artist's silkscreen and woodcut prints.
Gert and Uwe Tobias are Romanian artists known for their woodcut prints, relief sculptures, drawings using typewriters, watercolors and ceramics.
To print a woodcut, the artist covers the surface of the woodblock with ink using a brayer, a tool similar to a rolling pin that evenly spreads the ink.
Woodcut is the oldest printmaking process and it continues to be relevant today — artists such as Robert Mangold, Frank Stella and Helen Frankenthaler have all used it.
Here the grid is much in evidence and the print portfolio much in use, whether in Jennifer Bartlett's witty woodcut triptych, Untitled (Graceland Woodcut State II, 1979 — 80), Fred Sandback's Portfolio with 8 Linocuts (1979), or the majestic Untitled Ivory Black woodcut variations by Donalwoodcut triptych, Untitled (Graceland Woodcut State II, 1979 — 80), Fred Sandback's Portfolio with 8 Linocuts (1979), or the majestic Untitled Ivory Black woodcut variations by DonalWoodcut State II, 1979 — 80), Fred Sandback's Portfolio with 8 Linocuts (1979), or the majestic Untitled Ivory Black woodcut variations by Donalwoodcut variations by Donald Judd.
The color of each painting derives from the nudes by Impressionist artist Auguste Renoir, and revisits a technique Levine first employed in 1989 with her Meltdown series of woodcut prints, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists» iconic paintings.
In her woodcuts and monoprints, Dominique Ellis uses abstract patterns, textures, colloquial speech, and vibrant colors to reimagine abandoned spaces in the urban landscape of Philadelphia.
We use woodcarving tools to create one - color and multiple - color relief prints as well as a color reduction woodcut using the same matrix but multiple impressions, employing transferring techniques as well as design and mark - making methods in wood or linoleum.
These lushly colored sheets were used for the woodcut editions.»
Tyler describes: «For the Genji and Madame Butterfly woodcuts, she made wonderful painted wood panels that were used as the guide for making the color woodcuts on colored handmade papers (made by John Hutcheson and Tom Strianese).
Büttner deals with themes such as the attribution of value, poverty and shame, using various media including woodcuts, sculptures, textile works and video installations.
Mixed media pieces that used fiberglass, aluminum, woodcuts, stainless steel, all with lush, vibrant colors, inspired and energized me.
While their traditional use of folk art — woodcuts, embroidery and lace — evokes cultural nostalgia, their contemporary aesthetic refers and renews Geometric Abstraction.
February 26 — April 2, 2016: The Last Glacier In his first exhibition at Kai Lin Art, printmaker Todd Anderson uses reductive woodcut techniques to make original prints inspired by the remaining glaciers in Glacier National Park.
Source imagery can come from anywhere, although I'm still hooked on Dürer's Apocalypse woodcuts for the way he uses line so inventively to describe dragons and demons, patches of grass and cloudbursts.
Büttner, to the extent that she could be said to explore identity at all, has done so through her work with Carmelite nuns and displays of native plant life, although the judges singled out her use of anachronistic techniques such as woodcutting as amongst the reasons for her nomination.
Josef Albers, a founding member of the Bauhaus, was one of the most innovative printmakers of the twentieth century, making use of numerous print media, including etching, engraving, woodcut, lithography and screenprinting, from 1916 until his death in Connecticut in 1976.
«Printworks 2002,» 36 prints made by more than two dozens artists using techniques including silkscreen, monoprint, woodcut, lithograph, etching and wood engraving.
Flack uses as her source not the Rubens painting, but its woodcut, thereby drawing visual parallels between heavy outlining and graphic style of both classical printmaking and modern comic book illustrations.
Noted for his forceful expressionism - exemplified by a bold use of colour in his landscape painting as well as his portrait art - his most significant contribution is probably his woodcuts, which are among the most powerful examples of Expressionist printmaking.
The beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue explores the history of the chiaroscuro woodcut technique and how its use spread across different parts of Europe in the 16th century.
Making use of shifting viewpoints between Earth and the stars, Hammick's woodcuts reflect the artist's concern with the fragility of the environment and notions of home and identity.
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