Woodcut Memory Game | $25 Each of the 26 pairs of cards in this classic memory game is adorned with designs from Woodcut, the book by artist Bryan Nash Gill.
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All of them are finished off with pasted woodcut prints.
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These books each feature a woodcut animal on the cover.
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Dürer's originals were woodcut engravings — objects used to create copies.
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TED LOOS WOODCUT MEMORY GAME By Bryan Nash Gill; $18.95; bryannashgill.
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It included the original woodcut illustrations, also designed by Watkins-Pitchford.
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The artwork by Craig Coss is painted to look like woodcut blocks.
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A woodcut of a futurist cathedral by Lyonel Feininger graced its cover.
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There were galleries and art stores, and a woodcut studio near the base.
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Imagine, if you will, a fine woodcut print of a colonial witch burning.
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Although he is primarily a painter, he did a woodcut for Allied Editions.
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Instead, Albrecht Dürer presents major works and whole sequences, such as the iconic Apocalypse woodcut series (published 1498), the Nemesis engraving (1501-2), the Rhinoceros woodcut (1515), the Passion on green paper (ca1504), and studies of hands on blue paper (1508).
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It was in Germany that Munch mastered traditional woodcut techniques and invented his own.
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"The sculpture is being designed to contain an etching of Darshana's 'Mermaid Woodcut'," explains Serenity.
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I just thought a cheese woodcut was a good medium and clever idea to do.
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Years ago, while viewing a woodcut print by Richard Diebenkorn, I experienced a similar sensation.
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She makes monumental woodcut installations, one of which was just purchased by the Metropolitan Museum actually!
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Reiss' inspirations range from animals, folk art, and old woodcut illustrations, to magical symbols and the stars.
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Gessner's illustration above is based on iconic woodcut of the species made by Albrecht Durer in 1515.
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I work in the basement of my house, where I make ceramic sculptures, large woodcut prints, and paintings.
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I sent him a letter, along with a collection of poems I'd written, with a handprinted woodcut cover.
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The stack of woodcut yellow and blue plexiglass installations, all isolated rectangular blocks, hung vertically on the wall.
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"Beggar," like another woodcut of the same title, portrays a destitute woman asking for a scrap of bread.
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Mignola's comics have a kind of grim, stately dignity, with their stark lines, woodcut-style artwork, and subdued colors.
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For Kentridge, this meant one large woodcut, while for Webster it meant drawing on mostly small pieces of paper.
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I carved the words "Art of Cheesemaking"—woodcut-style—in the cheese and that became part of the slideshow.
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And Leonard Baskin made "The Poet Laureate," a scribbly woodcut portrait that is among the exhibition's larger images, in 1955.
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According to the Starbucks website, the seafaring theme was based on a Norse woodcut of a siren spreading her tails.
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AMSTERDAM — In the soft, clear light of Provence, France, Vincent van Gogh saw the crisp skies of Japanese woodcut prints.
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Zarina's etchings, woodcut prints, and handmade paper sculptural works circle around her personal narrative of displacement and her own subjectivity.
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Zarina's "Abyss" (2013), a woodcut print on BFK light paper, does not specify a particular landscape or border-making exercise.
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The Losers are flipping through ancient history, looking at woodcut drawings from centuries past, depicting clashes and conflagrations from Derry's history.
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Riggs enlisted British artist Andrew Davidson to create woodcut drawings for the stories, four of which can be seen exclusively here.
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The exhibition focuses on prints from the period, like the 22015 woodcut "Western Style Dancing," by the artist Kobayakawa Kiyoshi. rijksmuseum.
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It will also display 20 woodcut prints that Judd made in 1992 that have never been exhibited in New York. juddfoundation.org.
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Sometimes he does this through satirical lampooning, at other times through woodcut prints, and most importantly, through journalistic and documentary sketches.
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But, as editor Jon Crabb notes in his introduction, woodcut images were also first adopted by Catholics to publish devotional images.
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In a 1967 portfolio of multicolored woodcut prints, O meu e o seu: impressões de nosso temo (Mine and Yours: Impressions of Our Time), a madonna portends both religious iconocity and the seriality of Brazil's literatura de cordel (string literature): slim, cheap woodcut quartos of poetry, news, and folk histories hawked from a clothesline-like display.
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A series of small paintings depict four woodcut prints by Esherick, hung in hand-carved wooden frames on an unpainted wooden wall.
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Nearby, the stark contrasts in Jean-Émile Laboureur's black-and-white woodcut "The Bal Bullier" suggest the harshness of the ballroom's electric lights.
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For the show, a woodcut print of a bare food cupboard by Louise Bourgeois has been borrowed from the Museum of Modern Art.
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We are reminded of Hokusai's notorious woodcut, "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" (1814) in which a woman is having sex with two octopi.
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For thirty-four years, Sternberg remained an influential teacher at the Arts Student League and an author of manuals on printmaking, etching and woodcut techniques.
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Its black-and-white design is beautiful (like a medieval woodcut of a leaf),and adding solar power to an e-reader just makes sense.
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"There are no rules," Frankenthaler proclaimed, in a statement about the importance of risk-taking that gave the woodcut show at the Clark its title.
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Ms. Büttner, originally from Germany, works in a variety of media ranging from woodcut and glass painting to performance; her subjects include religion and botany.
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"Blind Vaysha," a film by Theodore Ushev with folkloric, Eastern European overtones, is a bit talkier, with a narrator's voice accompanying eerie, woodcut-like images.
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Dennis McNett has been making relief prints for over 20 years, and he's been turning woodcut prints into sculptures, installations, and performances for over a decade.
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For Trump's Cabinet, she turned to Albrecht Dürer's woodcut illustrations of the Book of Revelation, which feature the Whore of Babylon astride a many-headed monster.
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ROBERTA SMITH 'ART FOR ALL: THE COLOR WOODCUT IN VIENNA AROUND 1900' Edited by Tobias G. Natter, Max Hollein and Klaus Albrecht Schröder; Taschen; $69.99; amazon.
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"Beneath [woodcut illustrations] lay Latin and German rhymes telling of God's righteous anger at his wayward people," writes historian John Waller in his book Dancing Plague.
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Belkis Ayón was a master of collography, a technique of collaging onto a matrix rather than incising it, as one would for etching, engraving, or woodcut.
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The winsome language and striking woodcut art in bold colors and lots of black capture the ominous rush to judgment and the sweet possibility of wonderment.
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From woodcut prints to wooden staircases, Esherick's works developed in line with craft traditions, incorporating elements of Pennsylvania Dutch design into his German Expressionist-influenced style.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The 36 woodcut prints in Zarina's portfolio, "Home is A Foreign Place" (1999), strike me at the base of my throat.
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Gautron uses this technique to create tattoos of everything from donuts to The Simpsons — in short, he can turn your modern-day obsession into a woodcut tattoo.
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The oldest piece in the "In Print" exhibition now at the Hofstra University Museum is "Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus," a 21958 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer.
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She has projected the black and white image of a woodcut of a snow-covered field, with a bare birch tree in the left foreground, in one photograph.
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Ms. Saar's piece, "Stride Piano" (1993), is a film-noirish woodcut of a piano player, hat rakishly tilted on his head, with a cigarette and drink resting nearby.
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This period is the time most strongly associated with the ukiyo-e woodcut tradition, which produced many of Japan's most iconic woodblock prints, including those by Katsushika Hokusai.
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The Shanghai Cultural Bureau censored Sun Xun's woodcut animation, "Some Actions Which Haven't Been Defined Yet In The Revolution" (2011), from an exhibition at the Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai.
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Mimicking a woodcut, she carved the words "Art of Cheesemaking" into a 20-pound slab of Wisconsin Cheddar and used a photo of her creation to hook her audience.
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Fitbit Charge 2 | $150 Each of the 26 pairs of cards in this classic memory game is adorned with designs from Woodcut, the book by artist Bryan Nash Gill.
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Vikings are famous for their wooden ships and their fantastical mythology, but a series of sculptures depicting Viking ships and Norse myths made from woodcut prints tells a different story.
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Meanwhile, illustrator Eugene Yelchin offers beautiful, woodcut-like drawings depicting Brangwain's dispatches from the goblin kingdom, extracted from his thoughts and beamed back to the elves via a magic spell.
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The video is on a kind of woodcut printing trip; images of Alex Wiley himself appear from time to time on the mahogany background, changing etchings at a moment's notice.
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In masterful woodcut prints, such as "Ballad of Terror" (1975), she contrasts bold, abstract (but symbolic) images with pale, thin, rice paper so that nervy color inks may filter through.
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The woodcut playing cards by Hans Schäufelein, a Nuremberger who worked in Dürer's workshop, evoke, with bold lines and jumbo-size suit symbols, a Chaucerian world of rustics, clerics and merchants.
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"Creators and Critics" (1985-86), a large black-and-white power tool woodcut revives a favorite Sternberg motif in which he represents the artist in the guise of a carnival performer.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 16th century, Pierre Belon published one of the earliest scientific depictions of a dolphin: a woodcut with finely hatched skin and pointed teeth.
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The current logo — which features the letter 'M' and was based on a woodcut by Fra Luca Pacioli, who taught mathematics to Leonardo da Vinci — has been in use since 1971.
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The old logo featured the letter M and was based on a woodcut by Fra Luca Pacioli, who taught mathematics to Leonardo da Vinci; it had been in use since 1971.
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Balloons in bright colors stood in for the onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral; Peter the Great's ships sailed across a dark and wavy ocean seemingly printed with an inky woodcut.
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And there are famous examples in art like the 1515 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer of a rhinoceros, an animal he'd never seen, which he depicted sporting what appears like actual armor.
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If you're not sure where to start, we've got you covered — head on over to Maxine Gautron's Instagram account and prepare to be wowed by the French tattoo artist's stunning woodcut designs.
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Although the Toulouse-based tattoo artist can turn pretty much anything into a woodcut tattoo, many of Gautron's designs have a more "classic" feel that's clearly inspired by traditional Japanese art-style.
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There is a banner of Duchamp's infamous "Fountain," a neon rendition of Arp's woodcut "Poisson" and the word ART, each of its large letters rendered with small multiples of the word DEAD.
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For instance, Hong Seong-dam (Korea, born 1955) created "5.18 series-Dawn" (1983–1989), a series of 50 black-and-white woodcut prints that describe the 1980 democratization protest of Gwangju in Korea.
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Alongside the Concinnitas prints are objects like a 1525 woodcut of a spiral by Albrecht Dürer, 1528 perspective drawings by Peter Flötner, and 19th-century gridded chalk studies by Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry.
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In LACMA's recent show, "To Rome and Back," a fifteenth-century German woodcut of the Virgin and Child was placed near a painting of 1920s flappers adjusting their stockings to symbolize ... what exactly?
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Remember that time you decided to get really into woodwork, like, really into it, because one night while stoned you watched that video of the guy making an amazing woodcut with a chainsaw?
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In some pieces, the water seems stagnant around the ankles, as in the 2014 woodcut "Backwater Blues," in which a woman dips her broom in the water as if to sweep it away.
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Sister Christina was sitting at her desk, next to a bookcase decorated with pictures of smiling children and a woodcut that read "Peace," when a call from private equity intruded in her life.
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Other works bring a new painterly liberty to her signature realist imagery, commonly done in pencil or woodcut, of choppy seas in which every wavelet can seem to have sat for its portrait.
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Think, for example, of the sexualization of witches in early modern Europe, as exemplified by Albrecht Dürer's famous 1497 engraving "The Four Witches," or Hans Baldung Grien's 1510 woodcut print of a witches' Sabbath.
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Upload an Japanese woodcut of fishing boats, for example, and the system offers waves and water sounds; load an abstract painting of nightingales, and you're given a garden soundscape of wind chimes and birds.
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The woodcut in Fasciculus Medicinae, a compilation of medical treatises first published in 15105 in Venice by the brothers Gregorii and reprinted in 14 editions until 1522, captures the first cut on the corpse.
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Sabogal drew from traditional Andean and popular arts, like engraved mate gourds, to illustrate the magazine's pages, and favored rough-hewn, figurative woodcut prints, a medium allied with international Socialist causes of the time.
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Your wildest anxieties, your most God-forsaken imaginings — they could all be pulled out of the sky and made manifest in a woodcut of a nightmare beast, a fresh pox, or a folk tale.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Salamander: A Bestiary, a collection of poems by Leonard Schwartz, with woodcut prints by Simon Carr, from Chax Press, is not a routine poetic waxing on the animal kingdom.
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When they approached then-fledgling stencil and woodcut artist Brian Adam Douglas, known as Elbow Toe, to participate in the event, he was "incalculably grateful and terrified" to match the work of his more established peers.
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This one-of-a-kind creation uses woodcut-like illustrations to recount the life of a girl whose green left eye only showed visions of the past while her red right eye constantly showed the future.
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Luther also countenanced a media onslaught of polemical prints that identified the Pope with the Devil or, in a woodcut from Cranach's workshop, pictured him emerging from the womb (or perhaps the anus) of a female demon.
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An unknown Roman artist's charcoal drawing of a male figure made around 1650 AD and Albrecht Dürer's The Men's Bath, a woodcut of six men at an open-air bath made in 1496 AD, are both on display.
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Sumner's artwork here is mostly as broad and plain as a woodcut, black lines augmented with nothing but pale sand-yellow and sky blue; he draws Wyld and her family with circular heads and blunted triangles for noses.
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The 1480 woodcut print, on view in The Art of Ownership: Bookplates and Book Collectors from 1480 to the Present at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, depicts an angel holding a shield emblazoned with an ox.
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In a 216 woodcut, Heckel, traumatized by wartime service in the army medical corps, turns Munch's screamer into the figure of a man standing on what looks like a battlefield holding his hands to his head as if stunned.
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Mitch Fraas, the curator of special collections at the library, said, "It has a visual appeal from a mile away that makes you take note of it," noting that the woodcut style was unusual in Philadelphia at the time.
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Perhaps they should: The Starbucks logo — inspired by an old woodcut of a mythical siren –– was born from the rich marine history of Seattle, where rugged seafaring was a way of life long before grunge bands made the city forever cool.
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For the past two years, his collections have been intensely personal: One was literally pasted with images of Simons's past, patchworked together, juxtaposing a passport image of the designer as a teenager, a photograph of his parents, a Japanese woodcut.
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"It is experimental on some level because this is not our job, it is just something we found ourselves in by default," said Dennis Muraguri, one of the collective's four committee members whose woodcut prints focus on urban life in Nairobi.
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Working with black and white and hatched shading patterns, Berlin is purposefully drawn to resemble wordless novels of the '20s — an offshoot of German Expressionism which crossed with antique woodcut techniques to form an early ancestor of the modern comic book.
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When I visited the office, in April, the desktop was stacked with beautiful old objects, from a gilded Roman-style wreath to a nineteenth-century English translation of the Decameron, published in the nineteen-thirties, with Art Nouveau woodcut illustrations.
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Much like the Abu Ghraib series, Heyman's woodcut portraits feature the figure surrounded by swirling text, transcribed from their oral histories, while Ganje's letterpress printed broadsheets include more interview excerpts, riffing off Heyman's color palette in different typefaces, sizes, and orientations.
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In "Obscuring Moon" (2016), which is based on the Hiroshige woodcut, Tabaimo's video is projected onto a support that extends out into the room, conforming to the open doorway depicted in the video, revealing an open, roofed porch or viewing area.
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One notable woodcut is that of Orion: usually shown as a hunter, the figure in Ratdolt's text is a knight in armor, clutching a club in one hand and a personified shield in the other — a valiant guide to the heavens indeed.
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Lutes's clean, brisk cartooning owes much to Hergé (the creator of Tintin), but there is more than a dash of noir taken from German Expressionism and the woodcut novels that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s (notably those by artist Frans Masereel).
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A Teutonic knight spears a man in the 1000 Prussian conquest, elephants pummel people in the Punic Wars, skulls are piled high in a representation of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, and a soldier is posed in profile in Chwast's woodcut for the 2006 Iraq War.
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Selected pieces range from an Albrecht Dürer woodcut illustrating The Ship of Fools (a set of satirical verses published in Germany in 1494) to Winslow Homer's watercolor "The New Novel" (1877), picturing a girl in an orange dress reading in a patch of grass.
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The Van Gogh Museum exhibition begins about a year later, when he moved into his brother's apartment in Paris and discovered that the German art dealer Siegfried Bing — who sold Japanese artworks and decorative objects — had an attic full of Japanese woodcut prints at very reasonable prices.
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Works like Christian Rohlfs's 21985 woodcut painted over with gouache, "Tod Als Jongleur" ("Death as a Juggler"), and Max Beckmann's 21995 drypoint print, "Die Granate" ("The Grenade"), evoking the destructive power of war, prove to be a perfect prelude to the Spero exhibition one floor down.
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I'm cut in line by a swarthy 20003-year old year old with a black card and marine blue bandanna, surrounded by a gaggle of glitter and midriffs, who attempt to bribe a tank-topped blonde bartender with a full sleeve of a Japanese woodcut and a Pegasus.
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But there are beautiful household objects vying for your votes, too, from Rina Elman's ornate butter dish, which will elevate any morning meal to an aristocratic occasion, to Sergiy Lysyi's elegant and adjustable Heron floor lamp, inspired by Japanese artist Ohara Koson's woodcut print of the white bird.
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Given that one of her related drawings is titled "Laurie and Richard in Provincetown" (1969), it seemed to me that Gross was likely inspired by the "Provincetown Print," a white-line woodcut developed by a group of artists living in Provincetown, Massachusetts, during the early part of the 813th century.
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But the fair's works-on-paper section was sufficiently of-the-moment for Galleri K of Oslo to show monumental woodcut prints by the Swiss artist Franz Gertsch, whose 1976 painting "Luciano" sold for an auction high of 2.7 million pounds, or $3.3 million, at a contemporary art sale in London this month.
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The thick, curling lines of an 1896 woodcut print, "La Paresse (Laziness)," by the French-Swiss artist Félix Vallotton, of a woman lounging across a blanket-draped daybed with her cat, inspired the Art Nouveau style of the logo for Wintergarden, a new line of handwoven Turkish cotton and wool blankets McNanney introduced last month.
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"I used to steal posters from my local coffee shops that had woodcut or screen print style designs on them — I would use them as inspiration in designing posters for my college radio station but I would hang them all in my dorm room," admits 25-year-old Ramona, clearly a card-carrying member of the non-conformist camp.
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Organized by Jay Clarke, the museum's curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, the show covers a range of work starting with "East and Beyond" (1973), the artist's first woodcut, which she made at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), run by the legendary Tatyana Grosman in West Islip, Long Island, and ending with her last, "Weeping Crabapple" (2009).
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You might think that Frankenthaler's unmitigated love of paint and lifelong practice of spontaneous innovation would leave little patience for a procedure as exacting and collaborative as the woodcut, but it turns out that her audacity and vision were more significant forces in the shaping of this remarkable body of work than any medium-specific skill set.
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The books also featured a hundred and twenty-eight woodcut illustrations, all by one artist from the Cranach workshop, known to us only as Master MS. There they were, all those wondrous things—the Garden of Eden, Abraham and Isaac, Jacob wrestling with the angel—which modern people are used to seeing images of and which Luther's contemporaries were not.
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But the scrapbook in which it was pasted, created by the 19th-century antiquarian Samuel Hazard, also includes other striking images, like a woodcut from a 1780 German almanac showing the traitorous Benedict Arnold being paraded through the streets in effigy, which is pasted opposite a 1798 engraving of members of Congress attacking one another with sticks and hot pokers.
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All dim, unwoken, shut as the Duchess's (née Clare Singleton's) dust-caked woodcut gramophone as the frail jail of Limoges and miniature salt shakers belling at my footfall recalled country wenches doing the quadrille with speculators' sons, and Ben the tavern houseboy, in canary pantaloons wafting a fan sewn from the tails of fifty peahens to keep off the Luciferian flies.
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If one takes class oppression to be universal, that is, able to defy borders and language barriers, one also finds echoes of the same Socialist Realism in the works of the woodcut artist, Antonio Frasconi whose "Offshore Oil" (1953) could well be a continuation, across modernities and histories, of Chittaprosad's "Untitled" ink on scraper board sketch (1946) of a countryside undergoing industrialization.
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Nikolai Astrup, Foxgloves, 1925, Color woodcut on paper, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Photo © Dag A. Ivarsøy Even when such mythological components as cherry trees becoming trolls, mountains becoming ice queens, and melting snow transforming into mighty horses aren't so explicit, Astrup would paint scenes where the mountains were ablaze with occult fire rituals or the abundant, rain-soaked greenery was bathed in supernatural light.
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What my 250-square-foot room lacked in size it made up for in a sleek style, with a tightly made king-size bed, framed fabric headboard, pristine white walls, wooden tulip table, a black goose-necked reading lamp and a woodcut of Ella Sheppard — a former slave who was a pianist, singer and a force behind the seminal Fisk Jubilee Singers — from the in-house printing studio.
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