Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Eye Candy for Today: Hiroshi Yoshida woodblock print
Sekishozan (Shi-shung-shan, South China), Hiroshi Yoshida Large version here. As much as I recognize and admire the influence Japanese printmakers had on European artists, notably the French Impressionists, my favorite synthesis of Japanese and European artistic conventions is found in the woodblock prints of Japanese painter and printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida. There is something about his…
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Anders Zorn’s etchings
In my post on the paintings of the terrific Swedish artist Anders Zorn back in March of this year, I promised to follow up with a post on his amazing etchings. I just love etchings, they have a line quality and visual charm unlike any other medium. There are three artists at the very top…
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Gustave Doré
When I was growing up, there were several books in the house that helped prompt my interest in art. A couple of them, in particular, impressed me with the power of drawing and printmaking. One was a 1948 edition of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustave Doré; another was a Dover edition of Doré’s…
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Eye Candy for Today: etching after Burne-Jones
The Cumaean Sibyl, etching and drypoint by Charles-Albert Waltner from a drawing by Edward Burne-Jones. An example of an etching designed by one artist and executed by another, as was common practice in the 19th century. Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of art. Image size is roughly 17×7 inches (44x17cm).
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching
The Traghetto No. 2, James McNeill Whistler Etching and drypoint; eighth state of nine, roughly 9×12 inches (23x30cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Rembrandt, Whistler never fails to amaze me with how casual he makes his drawing process look in his etchings, and yet how powerful and subtle is the…
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Architectural alphabet, Antonio Basoli
Though perhaps not as clever and imaginative as the Landscape alphabet by L.E.M. Jones — that I recently highlighted here on Lines and Colors — this architectural alphabet by Italian artist Antonio Basoli is nonetheless well done and amusing. Basoli published his Pictorial Alphabet, or, a collection of pictorial thoughts composed of objects beginning with…