Word: aquatint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...missed at this exhibit is Cassatt's beautiful but lesser known series of drypoint and aquatint color prints from 1890-91. These prints, inspired by a similar series of woodblock prints by the Japanese artist Kitigawa Utamaro, depict daily domestic scenes of female life. Subdued colors and clean lines give these prints a charming simplicity. But the Museum of Fine Arts has not done the best possible job of showing the close links between Cassatt's style and the style of the original Japanese prints that inspired her. At the Art Institute of Chicago, where the Cassatt exhibit first opened...
...remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue aquatint by Douglas Dowd are similarly unexpected highlights of the exhibit. These works show the range of etching as a medium of both great precision and, at times, emotional impact...