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Category: Prints and Printmaking

  • Arkady & Gennady Pugachevsky

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    Engraving is a painstaking and demanding art form that once was widely practiced but today seldom attracts the attention of young artists. It requires a great deal of patience, planning and physical precision, in addition to artistry, but the results can be wonderful. Sometimes a skill like engraving can be passed down from one generation…

  • BibliOdyssey

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    Well, it happened again. I was trying once again to bring you this post and I got lost. You see, I fell down a rabbit hole, found myself among the very large and the very small, and as everything became curiouser and curiouser, lost myself wandering in wide eyed fascination through a seemingly endless wonderland…

  • Eyvind Earle

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    Eyvind Earle was an illustrator, author, animation art director and background artist. He did backgrounds for a number of Disney’s notable short films in the ’50’s and was the background artist and art director for Disney’s Sleeping Beauty feature length animation. He also worked on Lady and the Tramp and Paul Bunyan. His illustrations appeared…

  • Katsushika Hokusai

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    When I write these posts, I take the approach of describing artists from one tradition or genre to readers who are coming to lines and colors with an interest in a different area, in the hope that I can introduce you to something that you might not have encountered otherwise. Even so, I usually try…

  • Käthe Kollwitz

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    German artist Käthe Kollwitz began her career as a painter until, inspired by the prints of Max Klinger, she began creating etchings, lithographs and woodcuts, eventually abandoning painting for graphics. Kollwitz was also a sculptor and her drawings and graphics have a distinctly sculptural quality, as if rough-hewn from wood or stone. Her subjects were…

  • Dave Bruner

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    I recently attended the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual, a delightful outdoor art fair that has been happening in Philadelphia’s jewel of a city park for 75 years. I’ve been going to the show since I was a teenager, and I think of it as marking the beginning of the Summer. (Last year they added…