Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Eye Candy for Today: Dürer’s St. Eustace
St Eustace, Albrecht Dürer Engraving, roughly 14 x 10 inches (35 x 26 cm). Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original of this impression is in the National Gallery of Victoria, which also has a zoomable image. In this tour-de-force engraving — created at the dawn of…
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher’s Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Hand with Reflecting Sphere, M.C. Escher From the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Too often, Escher’s skills as a draftsman and printmaker are overshadowed by his brain-twisting themes. This one, though still weird and cool, is more straightforward than some. Apparently drawn from life, with the difficult spherical perspective, it features the common cheat in…
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Eye Candy for Today: JMW Turner etching and mezzotint
Bridge and Cows (Liber Studiorum, part I, plate 2), Joseph Mallord William Turner In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download links under the image. Part of a series of etchings Turner produced, categorized to illustrate the various kinds of landscape (in this case “P” for “Pastoral”), this beautiful etching and mezzotint…
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Japanese prints from the Met via Ukiyo-e Search
This week is one of the weeks designated two times a year as “Asia Week New York” by the Japanese Art Dealers Association, during which a number of galleries, auction houses and museums make a point of having relevant exhibits. Rather than feature images from temporary exhibits, I’m focusing here on a specific ongoing source…
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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…