Word: casarella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works of two other printmakers who picked up prizes in both the Washington and Brooklyn shows indicate that the trend is away from experiment for its own sake. One of the best of the new comers. Edmond Casarella, used cardboard in relief to make Rock Cross, but the success of the finished work depends on the careful preliminary sketches he made of rocks along the Maine coast. In Winter, Gabor Peterdi of Yale's Design Center combined both etching and engraving techniques. The result, a moody study of brush locked in wintry immobility, is an imaginative rendering of nature...
...Morris Graves's Bird is deftly caught on thin rice paper with a Chinese economy of line. But they are small islands of representation in a swirl of abstraction. Emphasizing the trend is Brooklyn Museum's only U.S. purchase. Two Points of Interest by Brooklyn Artist Edmond Casarella, 34, is a scrawled composition of broken space which slowly unjangles to reveal forms suggesting an apartment house, shades half drawn, laundry on the line, and a peek into a bedroom with a closed door...
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