Category: Prints and Printmaking
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Oleg Denisenko
Sometimes artists can be self-consciously quirky in an attempt to be “different” and carve a niche for themselves. Other times, though, artists are simply quirky because the are. I think Ukrainian artist Oleg Denisenko falls into the latter category. His delightfully bizarre prints of fantastical figures in elaborate armor, often sporting wings and accompanied by…
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James Skvarch
I really enjoy etchings. Etching a subtle art that seldom receives the attention it deserves in this day of jaded, color drenched and video saturated vision. Etchings seem quiet, but within their subtlety they can be as dramatic as a painting, and there is something about the quality of etched lines that is unlike any…
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Annibale Carracci’s Book of Portraiture (?)
I have to admit I’m not quite sure what this is. I came across it from a link somewhere (and have unfortunately forgotten the connection), and bookmarked it under “cool drawing resource”. Carracci was a 16th Century Italian master renowned for his beautiful frescos and paintings, and credited with inventing caricature in the modern sense.…
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Frederick Catherwood
If Indiana Jones had been equipped with a sketchbook and watercolor kit instead of his famous whip, he might have been Frederick Catherwood. Catherwood was an English architect and artist who traveled to Central America in the mid-1800’s with a writer named John Lloyd Stephens to create a book on the ancient Mayan ruins, which…
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The Nativity – Rembrandt
The Nativity – Rembrandt, etching 1654, 106x129mm. Larger version here on Rembrandt: life, paintings, etchings, drawings & self portraits. Addendum: Li-An writes to mention that those near Paris can still catch Rembrandt the Draftsman (EN) (FR) at the Louvre until January 8th, 2007. Here in the U.S., in the midwest, Rembrandt: Master Etchings From St.…
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
In spite of the fact that he grew up in the fantastic city of Venice, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was even more fascinated with the amazing city of Rome. He moved there in 1740, when he was twenty, and the city itself became his subject and inspiration. In the course of his career he would create…