Word: woodblock
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...them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were, chopped in half, for the "tenor pans" they were sliced thin. Then half a dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas and woodblock players, and they had a "steel band." Trinidad alone now supports some 200 such bands, and the demand for the music has erupted throughout the Caribbean. A fine sample on LP is now available: The Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua, B.W.I. (Cook...
...important thing. As wood sculpture, his woodcuts become more controversial, but this may be a significant departure into a twilight zone between woodcuts and sculpture. Color is not emphasized in Martin's prints. Conventional black and white dominate, except in "Cathedral," which gives some idea of what a colored woodblock looks like...
...HOSE words, by Critic Andre - Malraux, pinpoint one of the most important happenings in art history. Burgeoning now, it has been preparing for 500 years. Art reproduction dates back to the woodblock illustrations of the 15th century. In the 16th, the great Raphael was so impressed by the possibilities of copper engraving that he issued some prints from his own designs. By the end of the 19th, Currier & Ives had flooded the U.S. with a choice of 7,500 hand-colored lithographs ("Juvenile, Domestic, Love Scenes, Kittens and Puppies, Ladies Heads, Catholic Religious, Patriotic, Landscapes, Vessels, Comic, School Rewards...
Today marks the sixteenth anniversary of the first recording session on which a full set of drums was used. It happened in Chicago at the old Okeh studios, and the percussionist who broke away from the hard and fast rule of showing up with only a snare drum, cymbal, woodblock, and cowbell was Eugene Krupa, fresh out of school and still on Camels...
...March the main exhibitions will be of illuminated manuscripts from the library of J. Pierpont Morgan '89, paintings of the Barbizon School, American water colors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and examples of Chinese and Japanese woodblock prints from the seventh century to 1940 and the tools used to make them...