Word: woodcut
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...show displays both the medium's instruments--etching needle, drypoint needle, copper plate--and demonstrates the distinction between etching and other printmaking processes. In three sixteenth-century works by Albrecht Durer, the differences between etching, engraving and woodcut printmaking are evident. The woodcut is cruder, with broad areas of black and white, and the well-defined line necessarily supercedes tone and mood...
...Rape of a Young Woman" has more uniform hatching lines and intense detail, while the remarkable and dark engraving "A Knight, Death and the Devil" contains more varied and subtle tones. The etching falls between the dramatically expressive and provocative engraving and the folk art-like crudity of the woodcut...
...gentle Dr. Griffin was at last persuaded to bring his specimen to New York, but he refused to let it be shown at any museum. In the meantime, Barnum had three woodcuts made up, all picturing mermaids as the public imagined them; not unlike beautiful Ariel in "The Little Mermaid." He offered three New York newspapers these woodcuts, explaining that Dr. Griffin was not going to allow the mermaid to be exhibited. The papers, each believing it had an exclusive copy of the woodcut, proudly printed it in their Sunday editions. Barnum also made up 10,000 little pamphlets with...
Nolde belonged to the radical group, Die Bruke, for a year; and his woodcut portrait, "The Prophet," is one of the most famous examples of their German Expressionism. But the artist did not consider himself cosmopolitan like his contemporaries. This sentiment is emphasized by his deep committment to the land his ancestors had farmed and his native village, from which he took his surname. When Nolde offered a vision of his German homeland, the Nazis not only forbade him to work (with little success), but ridiculed him and other artists in the 1937 exhibit of "Degenerate Art." Their fear...
...withers in this anthology, only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...