Printmaking

Albrecht Durer was a creative genius that had skillfulness which was nearly unparalleled in his time, and that still holds true some five hundred years later. While the image produced by Albrecht Durer, St. Eustace is small in size it is huge in skill. The image has such realistic texture and detail that it is almost hard to look away from the skill exhibited and needed to create such a complicated and beautiful image. Not only do I want to talk about Durer himself, I want to talk about what the…

he spent many hours at the Louvre and by 1860 he had drawn of 700 copies of other people's work. Edgar is known for his paintings, sculptures, printmaking, and drawings. He is considered a founder of Impressionism He didn't really like to travel a lot. He mostly stayed at home.Edgar Degas culture is French. He mostly spent his time drawing, printmaking, making sculptures etc. He made most of his artwork in his studio. Most of his artwork represented…

part of my investigations, through the use of databases and books from the library. Including the use of information I might find at the different colleges at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Experimenting with large scale imagery in the printmaking process and using unconventional materials to convey meaning in my thesis imagery. I would like to use three-dimensional sculpture in conjunction with two –dimensional art. I am interested in combining commonalities between the sciences of…

artist at Kaunas Textile Company. Later in 1942 he became a teacher at Vilnius Art Academy as well as the head of the Department of Printmaking. He continued with his art career in Toronto when he became a teacher at Central Technical School, Western Technical Commercial School, Winston Churchill Collegiate, and University of Toronto, teaching the art of printmaking. Wood engraving was primarily part of Telesforas’s early work. His work started becoming more abstract when he started to add color…

Francisco de Goya was a Spanish painter. He was born March 30th 1746 and died April 16th 1828. He is known for his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and printmaking. He is also known for his big and wild imagination and his devotion to painting. Francisco was born in Fuendetodos, Spain. He had four siblings named Rita, Jacinta, Mariano, and Carmilo. In 1749 the Goya family moved to Zaragoza, where Francisco went to school at a Pius School. When Francisco was 19 and 22 he sent in entries for the…

Conceptual Artist and Painter. Lewitt’s work ranged from painting, drawing, sculpting to conceptual pieces that only existed as ideas of his artistic process. He attended Syracuse University and pursued art as an act of rebellion. He was introduced to printmaking when he attended Syracuse and won an award for his lithography; which then allowed him to travel and study in Europe. In 1951, Lewitt was drafted to war, his duty as Special Services was to make posters. He later was discharged and…

Kara Walker -- an African American artist -- creates a space for race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity through her art. Walker, according to bio.com, was born in Stockton California, during the fall of 1969. Where does a seasoned artist like Walker draw her inspiration? Many have speculated that her inspirations came from her father, who was also a painter, and influenced Walker to become a painter herself at the age of the three. But, In a report by the Wall Street Journal’s 2014…

Introduction to European Art:- European art is an art, which is the biggest and most distinguished within the United States. With a broad range of paintings, sculpture, and attractive arts from all over Europe, the gathering includes works covering nearly all historical periods from Ancient Balkan state and Rome up to 1950. The European assortment was inaugurated with the gift of a gaggle of a hundred master paintings from newspaper power James Scripps in 1889. Once years…

born August 6, 1928 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also known as the “Pope of Pop.” Andy had his own signature style. People were attracted to Andy Warhol because he was so original in what he did as a artist, Warhol used hand drawings, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, various colors, sculpture, and music. Andy’s works reached out to the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement. The pop art movement in the mid 1950’s was a big hit. The…

Vincent Van Gogh's work of art named Old Man with His Head in His Hands has a variety use of media and marks made throughout his work. Van Gogh shows his media by drawing and expressing the grief of the old man through his drawing with pencil on paper. He shows the solidity of the old man and shows where his surroundings are. Cross-hatching is expressed in the drawing which is drawing a set of hatching over the other but in different directions. Hatching is shown too which are parallel lines…