Word: aquatint
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...Klinger’s etchings are another highlight. His four prints from On Death, Part One examine death’s randomness, hauntingly capturing episodes of sudden death with terrific contrast between line and tone through etching and aquatint techniques. His two prints from Brahms Fantasies resemble surreal collages of these techniques, with eerie open-mouthed faces stuck onto harps and a powerful background of turbulent waves and sky converging to reflect the chaotic power of the composer’s music...
...etchings are stark and striking, reflecting the crudely innocent style of the women’s drawings. Her themes are also merciless in their truth and unrelenting in their exposure of cruelty. There is “Send Them Home to Die,” done in etching, aquatint, and softground, in which women with broken bodies walk single-file down a hill, perhaps to death, perhaps to hell. But their lives are already a sort of hell...