Sentences with phrase «woodblock prints seemed»

A specially commissioned set of Japanese woodblock prints seemed to be the perfect vehicle.

Woodblock printing seems to have been the earliest method.

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The scene seems to embody the title of All my favourite artists had problems with alcohol (2005), a woodblock print by the German artist Andrea Büttner, who is evidently no stranger to the relationship between art and shame.

In her display, images of beggars from art history are exhibited on a low table, quite literally begging a closer look, while a series of nine woodblock prints, based on Ernst Barlach's 1919 sculpture of a cloaked mendicant, initially seem childlike in terms of their composition, but prove deeply affecting.

If Frankenthaler's ambiguous, loose, fluid painting style seems at odds with all the planning and collaboration required in woodblock printing, fear not.