What happened to woodcuts?
I miss those things.
What happened to woodcuts?
Zachary Baker
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Ayden Bailey
people invented easier ways to print pictures
Sebastian Stewart
so cool. i have some novels with woodcut illustrations but i avoided looking at them even though they're probably interesting
Brandon Johnson
I fucking love woodcuts, linocuts, any sort of cut is good in my book. Recently found some Brazilian stuff that albeit very simplistic, somehow touches me deeply.
Parker Sanders
You're missing out, user.
Luis Baker
The form is alive, but it is used to post simple/modern band flyers and such things. The ornate "late renaissance/early-modern" woodcut, as I will clumsily call it, is a dead form.
t. very knowledgeable on M.C. Escher's printmaking via one of my favorite art books (the two techniques that he settled on for the better part of his output were the woodcut (especially earlier) and the lithograph (a subtler technique which lets you render "greys"), with dalliances into the mezzotint, an arcane process. I also went to a college where a studio art professor specialized in printmaking. I did not take any studio art (and so I was never in his class) but he ran the art wing's side gallery which I visited a time or two, and so I couldn't help but be aware of him, also through my personal art-historical interests.
Brayden Gonzalez
what is the book name? do you have any others in the same subject to recommend
William Mitchell
This type of line is characteristic of "modern" line in woodcuts, an easier production along the lines of the "living" form that I just referred to. As an Escher example, compare a personal favorite from his early period: St. Francis (ministering to the birds). Note the moderate detail in lines (halo, foliage), the alternation of black/white positive/negative space (coloration of birds vs. solid/air), and the stigmata. Escher also did much cruder things during the 1920s and 30s for money, which are very similar in feel to this particular picture that you've posted.
To bring it back home to Yea Forums, all of this is documented in "M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work", the single best book on the artist, which contains both a lively biography as well as a catalogue. I've been wanting to re-read it lately but there's too much else to do (read), naturally.
Nolan Evans
Marxists ruined them
Jason King
This kind of Brazilian stuff is actually pretty folkish, I guess. There are some documentaries about it on YouTube but no subtitles so I can't understand anything being said, it just comes from some poor people in a desertland. I'll check based Escher, though.
Benjamin Bennett
Answered above, I'll just continue a bit. As I've indicated I just know a little bit about the art history, but I'm not a practicioner so I'm just being a dilettante for a bit of fun.
But books on printmaking, itself, or the art form? I couldn't give any detailed advice beyond straightforward starting points, so let me at least do those. Literature related to printmaking is necessarily of a few different kinds: actual how-to manuals/textbooks (I am ignorant of these for reasons explained above), art history about prints themselves, and literature which invokes the graphical form of the print, or in this case woodcut.
For art history related to printmaking, any book on Dürer is a good start. Pic related is considered as one of his great engravings (as opposed to the above woodcuts/lithographs), a distinct technique (I'm pretty sure). I had the pleasure of seeing one instance of it in a museum about a year ago; the image itself was also plagiarized for the "Death" card in a famous Tarot deck (Rider-Waite), proof of its relevance.
For tertiary literature, one has a good sense of what to see about: any European literature from about 1600-1900. Think of Salem witch trials, the frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, and the detailed figures of Gray's Anatomy. That kind of thing. Then begin to ask: who produced these images, and how... It (printmaking, engraving) was a quasi-mass reproducible form of imagery which preceded photography.
Dominic Cruz
And this picture, with its large black space and bold primaries, serves as a cute segue for one that really struck me lately: Picasso's take on a Cranach portrait. So again to the other user: look for detailed art histories about Picasso and his printmaking activity. He was a total slut and worked in every medium.
Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell was also big into prints (and also stuck to primary colors plus white/black), but I decline to say more about him unless anyone is curous as he's the kind of modern that people instinctively hate.
Carson Murphy
Last one I'll mention for now, back to Germany: Otto Dix, Stormtroopers Advancing under Gas. The image speaks for itself.
Isaac Sanchez
Who are the best artists?
Nathaniel Howard
Adrian Myers
Woodcuts (and similar engravings, linocuts, etc.) are beautiful, from Durer to Gerard Brender à Brandis (still alive and working today: check out his books on amazon.ca). Here's his Morning Glory cut (he uses boxwood endgrain usually: I've talked to him a few times and have some of his handmade work).
Eli Hill
Dix is fantastic, though those works are intaglio, done on metal plates: etching, dry point and aquatint combinations. I've done intaglio, lithograph, and a few other types of prints.
Nolan Lopez
Based, user. May I suggest you check out Gilvan Samico? He's inspired by the stuff you've posted but had academic training in painting.
Nathan Cox
Huh, this is actually pretty interesting, thanks. I might pick up the book sometime. I actually went to the Escher Museum last summer when I was in Holland, would definitely recommend a visit.
Juan Ward
You know what? While digging through the mud, Sometime I really like Yea Forums when people actually have a conversation on a relatively obscure subject.
Eli James
Also, I wouldn’t mind learning a little more. Modern stuff isn’t quite my forte, but it’s interesting nonetheless.