Selling laughs, a shirt at a time Dec 22, 2007
For instance, All U makes T-shirts, mugs and hats carrying designs by Vermont artist Stephen Huneck, known for his woodcut prints of dogs. And in the spring, All U will launch a new line of apparel based on the popular "Rubes" cartoon by Leigh Rubin. (Albany Times Union)
NIU museum celebrates donation with Asian art exhibition Dec 21, 2007
Story Photos Fumio Kitaoka, Fishing Village in the Afternoon, woodcut, 15 5/8 x 21 1/2 inches, 1966, Gift of Richard F. Grott. Provided photo. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
ART REVIEW: Lessons from wars past Dec 11, 2007
In addition to "In Days of War," the show includes related paintings and a monumental cycle of 15 black-and-white woodcut prints ... By contrast, Birk's woodcuts are 4 by 8 feet each and drawn in a blunt, direct style reminiscent of graphic novels or comics. (Los Angeles Times)
Don Gorvett and reduction woodcuts Nov 29, 2007
KENNEBUNKPORT "With a painter's eye for color, Don Gorvett produces prints with elegant and evocative tonal harmonies not usually associated with woodcuts," says Dr. Michael Culver, the curator of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art ... What: Don Gorvett rt of the Reduction Woodcut ... Why have you chosen the reduction woodcut as your primary medium over, for instance, the traditional woodcut. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Science of the art Nov 27, 2007
On another wall is the woodcut work of Nicholas Spohrer, who teaches at Fresno City College ... The woodcuts also connect with science ... From there, visitors can take matters into their own hands at a printmaking station based in woodcuts. (Fresno Bee)
Craft lovers click at Etsy.com Nov 8, 2007
MLEE Designer: Marissa L. Swinghammer, Jamaica PlainProducts: Original woodcut prints, mirrors, magnets, and pendants ... AZURE GRACKLE Designer: Jennifer Schmitt, ConcordProducts: Original woodcut prints. (Boston Globe)
Works of faith: Local man displays life, faith in images Oct 25, 2007
Halla, who has been working with woodcuts for eight years, said that he can spend up to 25 hours at his dining room table in Mt. Eden, etching and creating a single woodcut design ... He said that he enjoys working with woodcuts because of the precision of the craftsmanship and graphic nature of the prints ... In his woodcuts, Halla uses a three-step process to make the print. (Shelbyille Sentinel-News, KY)
Precious stolen map turns up in Sydney Oct 20, 2007
It was a woodcut by the engraver Johanne Schnitzer. A second map stolen from the Spanish National Library was recovered by the FBI from a New York collector about the same time police became aware the Ptolemy World Map had found its way to Australia. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
LINDSBORG -- The 50th anniversary of the Sandzen Gallery features three special exhibits of artwork. Sep 9, 2007
Logan is recognized for his woodcut block prints. He had never heard of woodcuts until he became employed by McCormick Armstrong printing company in Wichita ... He had been engaged for some time with the firm when one day a customer mentioned something about woodcut prints. (McPherson Sentinel, KS)
Weird Weather Aug 29, 2007
Great Balls of Fire -woodcut of Ball lightning. From L'Atmosph;re by Camille Flammarion. (FirstScience.com)
Street artist shares her gift Aug 24, 2007
Art pieces will feature woodcut prints by several students as well as Swoon's works. Swoon is one of the most prolific and well known of New York's new breed of young street artists. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Nary a word balloon in the bunch Aug 22, 2007
"One thing you can say about the Bush administration is that it makes woodcut books more relevant," comments Jeet Heer, the Toronto-based co-editor of the 2004 book, Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium ... Heer compares woodcut caricatures with the art of David Levine, the famous caricaturist for the New York Review Of Books ... "It's very detailed and observant he gets at the facial tics, for example whereas with the graphic or the woodcut novel, you're not dealing with... (Toronto Star)
Dong Ho Pictures Aug 14, 2007
Art of the Common People. Made by farmers, the bright coloured pictures of Dong Ho village represents the simple, optimistic yet critical view of life of common Vietnamese people. (Suite101.com)
Days of Future Passed: Raising awareness of marine life Aug 12, 2007
The collection includes oil and water color paintings with collages, as well as elegant personalized black-and-white woodcut prints ... The painting Manta is a breathtaking work of art in which Stephens experiments with woodcut prints in combination with acrylic and collage on rice paper and canvas ... From her woodcut prints that resemble traditional Japanese prints to her multidimensional collages that utilize a blend of textures and vibrant water colors, there seem to be no limits to... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Arlo Guthrie coming to Dowagiac on May 17 Aug 3, 2007
Musician Arlo Guthrie, Montana author Ivan Doig, "Dancing Outside the Box," a video and film festival of dance, storyteller Carmen Deedy and Evanston woodcut artist Jeanine Coupe Ryding are featured attractions of the May 9-17, 2008, festival, Dogwood Fine Arts announced Wednesday night at its annual membership meeting at Round Oak Restaurant. Dogwood, which is being promoted statewide by the Municipal Michigan League for other small towns to emulate Dowagiac, will also be bringing its youngest... (Dowagiac News, MI)
What is beautiful? Jul 30, 2007
"If they don't, it's their fault because they don't buy the right clothes. They don't have the right makeup. They weigh too much. They don't spend enough money on their haircuts."Thus Niswonger was confronted with the idea for her show "Beauty and the Barcode," a collection of drawings, woodcuts and prints that hammer home the theme that women too often allow themselves to be manipulated by the cosmetic, beauty, diet and plastic surgery industries ... One series of woodcuts features daughter... (Fresno Bee)
Once wary of pop culture and high art, evangelicals seek greater role as 'creators of culture' Jul 28, 2007
"If we as Christians believe that creativity and imagination is a gift from God, why have we neglected it for so many years?" said center director Steve Halla, a former Dallas Theological Seminary professor and a woodcut artist. Already, evangelicals are exerting greater influence in the film industry. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Art exhibits Jun 29, 2007
Domjan: Master of the Color Woodcut Centennial Exhibition-- Through July 28, Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Museum, second floor, Galleria at Erieview, 1309 E. Ninth St., Cleveland. 216-523-3900 or or. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
* Damien Hirst beats Jeff Koons, hands down Jun 14, 2007
Styles are scrambled X woodcut, cartoon, photorealism, oilpaint squeezed out like toothpaste, but each portrayed with flawlessly invisible brushwork. Silver overprints turn white or vanish in certain lights, so that you notice only this Jolly Green Giant or that lurking leafprint from unexpected angles in the gallery. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Moon-Randolph Homestead inspires artist whose work will be sold as fundraiser Jun 12, 2007
Second-grade students from Rattlesnake Elementary School listen as Missoula artist Claire Emery talks to them about the Moon-Randolph Homestead from the spot where she sketched the design for her woodcut, is for Homestead ... Caitlin DeSilvey, a caretaker of Missoula's Moon-Randolph Homestead, came seeking help: Would Emery do a woodcut print as a fundraiser for the homestead. (Missoulian, MT)
Microsoft's art collection has some hang-ups Jun 9, 2007
John Cheung, right, works in his office as another employee walks past The Lamp, a woodcut with rubber stamp and hand coloring by John Buck, on the Microsoft campus. Microsoft's art collection has some hang-ups. (USA Today)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Jun 8, 2007
Robert Michel, MEZ (Mitteleuropische Zeit), No. 1, 1919 20, woodcut, printed as a negative impression. The Smart Museum of Art Living Modern: German and Austrian Art and Design, 1890 1933 Thursday, June 7 through Sunday, September 16 Opening Reception 5-7 p.m. Thursday, June 7 5550 S. Greenwood Ave.. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Ogunquit printmaker to open Piscataqua Fine Arts Gallery Jun 7, 2007
Don Gorvett at his new Piscataqua Fine Art Gallery in front of one of his reduction woodcuts ... Mr. Gorvett is, of course, a multifaceted artist known primarily for his exceptional reduction woodcut prints, a technique that has few practitioners, and for good reason ... The technique is sometimes, in jest or in despair, referred to as suicide woodcuts because one misstep in the complex and demanding process can conscribe all the work up to that point to the garbage heap. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Mountain People Chronicles May 25, 2007
com, "Lines are cut into a metal plate using a tool called burin or graver. After the process of incising lines has been finished, the plate is inked. Then the surface of the plate is cleaned and only the ink in the incised lines is left. A dampened paper is put on the plate. With the paper being pressed firmly against the plate, it absorbs the ink left in the lines. Copper plates were used in the beginning. This technique required a professional engraver with skills that could be acquired only... (Mammoth Times, CA)
'Dürer and Italy': A master's impact on Renaissance art May 19, 2007
rer woodcut of "Christ Derided." ... Apprenticed to Michel Wolgemut, a painter and designer of woodcuts for books, D. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Traditional Pictures of Vietnam May 17, 2007
However, both places employ the woodcut print technique with different degrees and use the same materials. They also follow basic artistic rules that characterize Vietnamese traditional pictures. (Suite101.com)
Haunting images of history May 16, 2007
Don Gorvett, a reduction woodcut printmaker, shows off his new gallery and printmaking studio on Ceres Street in Portsmouth on Friday ... Certainly the medium, reduction woodcut prints, is uncommon ... The reason is, once a color is printed the corresponding lines in the woodcut are removed cut from the plate. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
European 'Journeys' into image May 12, 2007
In the first grouping, the curator shows pictures illustrating new print techniques -- woodcuts, engravings and etchings -- as well as those depicting discoveries in the sciences, arts and geography ... Woodcuts, in which images were carved into the wood's surface, preceded metal engraving ... The curator appropriately included Albrecht Durer's "The Adoration of the Magi" (circa 1501-1503) as one of the few woodcut examples here. (Washington Times)
Show stresses Munch's role as pathfinder of modern art May 7, 2007
It ranges from a self-portrait he painted when he was just 20 to a woodcut he printed only a few weeks before he died at age 80. Christoph Vitali, head of the foundation, said the show is the largest and most important mounted outside Norway since Munch's death in 1944. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Fit to Print Apr 12, 2007
David Hoke's woodcut "Movements" took two and a half months to complete ... Mr. Hoke is particularly fond of woodcutting ... "If you don't have a total idea of what you're doing, as you're working you can come up with ideas." Mr. Hoke's "Movements," made from two woodcut reductions, features orange and green tubular swirls flowing over a sea of circles, pinwheels and string-like lines. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
VICKERS/Where are they now? Apr 12, 2007
On the wall in the office I have kept on the campus since my retirement hangs a woodcut of Mt. Locust on the Natchez Trace that was sent to me by Roy Baker from Louisville who worked for the Gordon Marks Advertising Agency. Dwayne Warwick from Noxapater, a recognized landscape artist, who paints in the style of the Flemish school, also sent me a print of one of his paintings titled "Naine Pouring Milk.". (Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, MS)
Works of Arf Apr 11, 2007
Vibrant, charming woodcut prints of four-legged friends deck the walls and a six-foot wooden dog looms in the entrance, welcoming visitors with puppy dog eyes that laugh merrily, despite its statuesque, vertical posture ... Stephen Huneck, whose children's books based on the life of his beloved Labrador, Sally, are just as popular as his heart-warming and hilarious woodcut prints, appeared to be the featured artist of the show. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
The Black Panthers advocated armed struggle. Emory Douglas' weapon of choice? The pen. Mar 29, 2007
His style -- drawing with thick black outlines and creating woodcut textures -- is also similar to the Chicano poster art of the '60s and '70s. The images are full of anger and biting humor -- especially the many famous pig cartoons, iterations of the epithet the Panthers popularized for all embodiments of repressive authority. (San Francisco Chronicle)
History of a nation on paper Mar 27, 2007
Yet the German-born, Bauhaus-trained Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack made his woodcut, Desolation, in 1941 while he was being held in an internment camp outside Orange during World War II. ... The exhibition displays the complete range of techniques, from copperplate engravings, mezzotint, drypoint, lithographic crayon and woodcuts to graphic screen prints. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Original prints merit more than a glance Mar 3, 2007
"Miranda spent several weeks at Graphicstudio studying maps at the university. He found an ancient map of the New World showing Florida and Cuba."He incorporated that into the work itself," Sacilotto said. "We printed that combination of woodcut and silkscreen ... They all incorporate etching, lithography and woodcut. (Florida Today)
All the prints that are fit for views Mar 2, 2007
Ann Conner , in "Westwood 7" miraculously uses the ordinarily bold medium of woodcut to create an ethereal, lacy mandala. Conversely, Mardy Sears plays up her medium in the hand-colored woodblock print "My Curiosity Overwhelmed My Trepidation," a cheeky and pointed takeoff on old circus posters. (Boston Globe)
Rare Collection of English Ballads Available Online UCSB, Feb. 22 Feb 23, 2007
In addition to the texts and the titles of the music to which the lyrics should be sung, these broadsides also featured detailed woodcut illustrations. They were simultaneously poems, songs, and art. (University of California Newswire, CA)
One paints, the other prints Jan 28, 2007
"East Mountain" (woodcut, 11 by 14 inches) by Blanche Wilson ... Wilson is confederate with Peterson when she utilizes the mother-and-child motif on several of her woodcuts "Olga," "Girl in Red Chair" and "Patterns." However, the majority of the printmaker's work is landscapes and cityscapes, but her scenic depictions advance harmony, peace, serenity and other positive aspects of an upright society that are so close to Peterson's heart ... The seemingly random registration of a woodcut's colored... (Deseret News)
National Gallery welcomes 'famous artists of the world' Jan 26, 2007
The exhibition includes woodcut prints by Wang Nengtau, a multitalented artist who also sculpts, paints and takes photos. In the series, which he names The Bustling Age, he uses simple lines to shape the large portraits representing the "bustling age" in his country. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Images of political 'Dissent!' on view at Fogg Art Museum Jan 18, 2007
A woodcut by an unknown artist from 1520 depicts the pope as a wolf threatening Christian sheep. Examples of Francisco Goya's nightmarish, antichurch and anti-aristocracy series of etchings "Los Caprichos" are on display, as well as beautifully drawn political cartoons by the Englishman James Gillray and the Frenchman Honor Daumier. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Former Lindsborg studio artist to be featured at The Gallery through March Jan 14, 2007
In February the Gallery will present a show of woodcut prints by Pelle Engman of Mora, Sweden. Gallery hours are from 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. (McPherson Sentinel, KS)
'Grand!' exhibition opens at museum Jan 10, 2007
Other highlights of the exhibition will include a color woodcut print by the renowned Gustave Baumann and a painting by James Swinnerton. In tribute to the spectacular formations that have served as inspiration to the artists, Curator Mary Ann Igna has assembled large specimens of rock to be a part of the exhibition. (Wickenburg Sun, AZ)
• Majority of Americans Believe in Angels Dec 25, 2006
This image provided by the National Gallery of Art shows the undated woodcut "The Holy Family". Years before Johann Gutenberg printed the Bible, artists were decorating handbills printed with religious pictures, such as an angel looking down on Mary and the infant Jesus as she watches Joseph cooking. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Web perfect for art in motion Dec 24, 2006
He set out to create a 3-D illustration based on an intricate woodcut of interlocked rings by Escher. He ended up with a full-blown animated short called "Snakes," inspired by Escher's serpentine creation. (Orlando Sentinel)
Picture books: Friday is for finding frogs! Dec 4, 2006
If you want something wintry but with a little more of the Divine in it, try Through the Animals' Eyes: a story of the first Christmas by another regular in these round-ups, woodcut guru Christopher Wormell (Running Press Kids 10. 99). (Independent)
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Sitting in his hotel room in Delhi, the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor at Oxford University burrows over Circle Limit IV , a woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher. This is what Penrose is using to explain his theory of the Big Bang, that grand moment of expansion. (Hindustan Times, India)
Munch woodcut sets record price Nov 15, 2006
A woodcut by Norweigian artist Edvard Munch has been auctioned for what is believed to be the highest price ever paid for a graphic work, $1. 26 million. (Washington Times, DC)
Munch pricier than Picasso Nov 15, 2006
The lonely) woodcut would set a new record, but auction officials were overwhelmed by the NOK 8. 1 million (USD 1. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
Harbor fantasy Nov 11, 2006
Gorvett's large drawings, paintings and woodcut prints of turn-of-the-century working waterfront scenes in Gloucester and Portsmouth are studies of contrast ... Reduction woodcut printmaking is a link with the past. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Newest presidential portraits given timber treatment Oct 17, 2006
Instead, he offers clues in these portraits produced from woodcuts carved painstakingly by hand before being saturated with ink and applied to the papers now on display in "From George Washington to George W.: Presidents Getting Verse." ... "I wouldn't call it poetry. I think a poet would not call it poetry. "My father wrote verse like this a great deal, and for birthdays or special occasions, I would write a few lines," he continued. The woodcarving came more recently. After years of classes in... (San Francisco Chronicle)
More of this story Oct 7, 2006
Artemio Rodriguez's woodcut print "Zompantli" is part of Puro Muerto, which offers a contemporary view of the Day of the Dead by Los Angeles artists. The exhibit is on view through May 4 at the Central Library, 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7000 or lapl. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Native prints range from student work to modern wonders Oct 6, 2006
The drawn image is then traced to a stone and the line is cut out, similar to a woodcut relief print process ... "The Finding," a woodcut done by John Kailukiak in 1975, is a stylized image of a face with hands raised around the Earth. (Anchorage Daily News)
READ MORE > Sep 25, 2006
Included are watercolor, woodcut, oil on canvas and paper, lithography, and woodblock. "For the last several years there has been an adopt-a-frame program where people can donate money or donate in the memory of a friend or loved one for the purpose of reframing artwork in the permanent collection," said Witter Gallery Director Ron Stevenson. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Inside looks at the world of art Sep 15, 2006
Nancy Jo Mullen peels a final monotype print off the plate (Roy Musitelli). Artists open their doors to visitors during the annual Art Studio Tour. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Show for the birds Sep 15, 2006
The Leigh Yawkey Wood-son Art Museum's 31st annual show, which opened Saturday, is a celebration of birds in paintings, sculptures, batiks, woodcuts, etchings and graphite drawings, earning it a reputation as one of the premier wildlife art shows in the country ... Nothing but birds,'' says Andrea Rich, a woodcut printmaker and this year's master artist ... Rich, 51, says her woodcuts on display include sparrows in sunflowers and three cacique, a bird the size of a robin with a large bill,... (Cape Cod Times, MA)
A treasured collection Sep 9, 2006
There's also a small woodcut of a bobwhite by Boyd Hanna (1907-1987), a self-taught Pittsburgh wood engraver whose work is in the collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. Other furniture includes a Victorian side chair, a small Oriental table, an oak and iron ice cream table and a folding, tabletop book stand. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Click for story Sep 6, 2006
Lambert's 95-inch by 50-inch canvases are created by scanning images from magazines, photographs of tattooed bodies and images from art history into a computer, then enlarging them up until they get grainy and pixilated like a woodcut print. He's looking for dots and lines that can be used to print a silk screen. (Durango Herald)
Soul mates in art and life Aug 27, 2006
Founded by 12 students of the Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI) in 1998, Taring Padi became well-known for its strict commitment to political art through numerous woodcut poster actions and street-art performances during the reformation era. In 2002, the group was forced to leave its community squat at the former ISI campus in Gampingan, Yogyakarta. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Carved in Clay Aug 25, 2006
She sculpts away the outlines and carves away the background space to give it a carved woodcut appearance. All this is done when the clay is in its leatherhard stage, then wrapped in plastic to hold its moisture content. (Allentown Messenger Press, NJ)
THE MAN AND HIS MEDIUM Aug 21, 2006
In "Self-Portrait" (2004), a woodcut, tiny scribbles - doodles, essentially - create a huge variety of color values in the very un-doodlelike final image. "Self-Portrait" (1977), a big etching, is made of a grid of minuscule angled lines of varying density that translate into a highly convincing illusion when seen from afar. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Italian Renaissance comes alive... Aug 20, 2006
A woodcut version of Da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks" is also displayed along with 12 prints of Michelangelo's "The Last Judgment." The original wall painting in the Sistine Chapel is known as one of Michelangelo's masterpieces which took the artist several years of effort until he completed the work in 1512. A lithograph print of Elisabetta Sirani's "Portrait of Beatrice Cencie" greets observers with its trademark naive smile. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Night Vision Aug 17, 2006
The gallery has also put on view for the first time several significant recent acquisitions, including Bluemner and Yvonne Jacquette's "New York Harbor Composite," a 2003 woodcut composed of views taken from the 37th and 81st floors of the World Trade Center. "The evening has its arms around us now" - Lloyd Frankenberg, "The Night of the Full Moon". (CTNow.com)
Artist Lewis leaves great legacy with her murals, other works Aug 16, 2006
" Some of Lewis' murals, depicting cotton and riverboats, are on the inside walls of the old Greenwood-Leflore Library building, which has been closed to the public for years. The murals were painted when Lewis was 25. Greenwood and Leflore County are in the process of renovating the library, which was built by industrialist Andrew Carnegie. Leaders of the restoration effort say the two Lewis murals are a major focal point of the building's interior. These murals were her participation in the... (Greenwood Commonwealth, MS)
Art world welcoming Gruett Aug 14, 2006
Gruett's stylized design was heavily influenced by German woodcut designs, she said, and meant to capture the feel of Rhinelander. grew up coming to Rhinelander to shop, said Gruett, o I had that experience to draw from. (Forest Republican, WI)
The dazzling kiss of destructive... Aug 13, 2006
And thus masterpieces including "Sick Child," "Madonna," "Self-portrait" and "Woman" were reproduced through etching, lithograph and woodcut. "Madonna," produced in lithography, well identifies the characteristic features of Munch which is to portrait the form and the fascinating facial expression of the model through lines. (Korea Herald, Korea)
