Category: Prints and Printmaking
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William Hays
Though he also works in oil, Vermont artist William Hays found an initial diversion into reduction linocut prints to be so compelling that it is now the focus of his artistic endeavors. Reduction printing is a color printmaking technique in which a single block, in this case linoleum, is carved, printed in a color, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Karl Friedrich Schinkel pen lithograph
Das Schloss Prediama in Crein XII Stund: von Triest (The Castle of Predjama in Carniola, Twelve Hours from Trieste), Karl Friedrich Schinkel In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image. This striking print by the German artist, active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is a pen…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ophelia, Stephenson mezzotint after Millais
Ophelia, James Stephenson, after John Everett Millais In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mezzotint, etching and Stipple, roughly 21 x 34 inches (53 x 86 cm). In a kind of artistic collaboration that was not uncommon at the time, highly skilled etcher and engraver James Stephenson has interpreted as a print what is perhaps the…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Hamilton Mortimer’s Frontispiece from Fifteen Etchings
Frontispiece (from Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; image area is roughly 4 x 10 in. (35 x 25 cm). Whenever I see etchings like this, I’m reminded how much I love the character of etched lines; though similar in many ways, so different from…
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Hokusai exhibit in Paris
Katsushika Hokusai is arguably the most widely known and influential Japanese artist outside of Japan. Usually referred to simply as Hokusai, the artist actually changed his name several times through his career. He was a proponent of the Ukiyo-e school of woodblock prints. A new exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Escher’s Three Worlds
Three Worlds, M.C. Escher Lithograph, roughly 14×10 inches (36x25cm). Image on Wikiart, larger here. While it’s not one of Escher’s more obvious brain twisting visual conundrums, it’s a teaser nonetheless — also beautiful, subtle, and one of my favorites. In addition to the thought provoking subject, superb drawing and beautifully handled reflection and surface perspective,…