Leonard Baskin Research Paper

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Tommaso Masacchio was created by Leonard Baskin around nineteen seventy (“Tobey”). Leonard Baskin was born on August fifteenth, nineteen twenty-two in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He laid to rest in two-thousand and two in the town of Leads Massachusetts. Baskin’s artistic interest began at an early age when he watched a clay sculpture be created. A few years later, Baskin went to Yale on a scholarship when he discovered William Blake’s work, which made him very fascinated to become an artist (“Leonard”). Baskin then went on to create representational art, which is an ordinary figure, which one can recognize, but not a rational figure. Many of Baskin’s works of art were made by woodcut, using a slab of wood and gouges or knifes to create the work of art. Baskin also created the Gehenna Press, which was able to allow the printing of books …show more content…
Throughout the work of art Baskin used color and shapes to create the significant idea of Masacchio’s real life, which was shown as sad and full of sorrow. Baskin used white, black, and gray to show to create the sense of sorrow or sadness. He also used shapes to help create the real understanding of Masacchio’s life, not all the shapes are connected or perfect, just like in a real human being. The way that Baskin created his work of art can also communicate the significant idea of Masacchio’s real life. Baskin used the technique, lithograph, which is the drawing on stone. By using a real object, such as stone, it depicts the example of realness and truth. The relationship of the success of the piece to the success to the artist is very small. The artist, Baskin, is well known for his creation of the Gehenna Press, but a very small credit goes to his actual works of art ( Tommaso Masacchio is a wonderful piece of art, depicting the real life of an individual, but does not get that much accreditation as it

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