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...people would like to have A good original art in their homes, but few can afford it. A Montevideo-born artist named Antonio Frasconi has found a personal solution to the problem: he does woodcuts. Frasconi, today the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artist, makes 10 or 15 prints of a cut, sells them for $25 to $125 each. Such prices have brought him a far wider public than most painters can boast. This week, 34 of Frasconi's best woodcuts start a year-long tour of U.S. museums, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. The three prints opposite reflect...
Frasconi's simple and humble working philosophy is close to that of Japan's great woodcut artists, Hiroshige and Hokusai (18th and early 19th centuries) who also made cheap prints of familiar scenes. If his work is far from rivaling those old masters, it does meet similar challenges in a similar spirit. And no living woodcut artist puts a clearer sense of place mood weather and human activity into his pictures than Frasconi...
Lyonel Feininger did this signed woodcut in 1920. It is one of a wide selection of original prints by well known artists to be found in the Print known artists to be found in the Print Room of CHILD'S ART GALLERY at 169 Newbury Street in Boston. The price range on good, original prints starts at $2.50. Many are as high as $25.00, but most of the selections go for less, as does this woodcut...
...kindly remembered. The man was a genius besides. His line had all the energy of a high kick, his wit surpassed his exuberance, his knowledge of the human figure equaled his delight in it, and his touch was light as lace. He designed as well as the Japanese woodcut artists whom he most admired, and for their warm-milk sentimentality he substituted an absinthe bite...
...ller expects Australians to be less complicated than Europeans. Said he last week: "It will be necessary, I think, to speak to them in simple, sincere, readily understandable terms. All I will try to do is to put before them a picture, in solid, simple lines like a woodcut, of the nature of the extreme tests to which Christianity has been subjected in Germany for so many years. My aim is to get our story across, not just to an intellectual...