April 2012
22 posts
March 2012
34 posts
IPCNY: ARTIST OF THE WEEK: DAN STEEVES →
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Dan Steeves is a New Brunswick based intaglio printmaker, as well as a technician and lecturer at Mount Allison University where he received his BFA. His prints have shown internationally in public and private collections in Canada, the United States, Holland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Taiwan…
Black Heart Press: Lars Nyberg →
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14x12cm, Ed. of 100I’d like to use today’s post to shine a light on Swedish artist Lars Nyberg (*1956)
who works mostly with drypoints, creating reduced images with concentrated blacks and a lot of breathing space, in small formats.
I became interested in his works when seeing…
Beyond Printmaking exhibition images / Landmark Arts at the Texas Tech School of Art →
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“Features thirty-three works by thirty-five artists from across the U.S. who push the technological and conceptual boundaries of printmaking. Juried by Melanie Yazzie, associate professor of art at the University of Colorado, Boulder. On view through Mar. 4th.”
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Printmaking has historically been an ideal medium to critique political and social issues.
There is an immediacy in printmaking that lends itself to an engagement with movements for change. The printed image becomes synonymous with the pamphlet and the newspaper as a means to disseminate propaganda or simply ideas outside of the mainstream to a wider public.
A strong tradition within printmaking has been to evoke change through the distribution of the multiple image.
” —Paul Coldwell, from Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective (via tatefoley)February 2012
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“Disasters Of War, however, was commissioned by no one. It was Goya’s private project, which he never even published in his lifetime. Unflinchingly he depicts mutilation, torture, rape and many other atrocities besides – performed, indiscriminately, by French and Spanish alike. This art wasn’t partisan, it was a grim observation of man’s potential inhumanity to man; of the true barbarities of war.”
—How Disasters Of War made Goya a ‘modern’ artist | Phaidon (via printeresting)
