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Category Archives: Modern prints
Two Modern Artists
I am not always a fan of modern art. I find some pieces as not thought through or show little effort has been put into them. Both the artists, today, show that less can be more when it comes to … Continue reading
Modern Prints
I thought today, we would visit two artists. Printmakers. One sadly not with us any more but the second still plying their trade. We will begin with #TomMackenzie (1947-2018). A Scottish artist who lived and worked in #Portree on the … Continue reading
Posted in Aquatint, Etching, Lino/woodcuts, Modern prints
Tagged bills, birds, feathers, Loch Cluanie, mountain, Scotland, shore, smew, snow
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Oscar Kokoschka artist
This week, I came across a print. In its’ frame, one cannot see any signature or any information about the image at all. It intrigued me so I acquired it. A quick image search on Google tells me that this … Continue reading
Posted in Lithographs, Modern prints
Tagged arm, dress, lady, offset lithograph, Oscar Kokoschka, portrait, wrist
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Siecle XXe vol. 4
At the end of March, I wrote a chapter on the art magazine Siecle XXe volume 3 which focused on artist Wassily Kandinsky. Volume 4 of the art magazine contained 10 lithographs by various artists. The art publication was the … Continue reading
Posted in Lithographs, Modern prints
Tagged Arp, Bill, Duchamp, Helion, Laurens, Magnelli, modern, siecle xxe, Zadkine
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The Genius of Paper
I thought I would begin this year with a short chapter on something which must be one of man’s greatest inventions. #Paper is something which we take for granted nowadays and are now limiting or trying to eradicate some of … Continue reading
A Christmas Rose – A Legend
Today is Christmas and I offer (a poor effort of poesy on my part) a tale which is known near and far. There is a tale told from old Two thousand years plus a number more Of starry skies and … Continue reading
Posted in Modern prints
Tagged angel, Christ child, Christmas, gift, Mary, rose, shepherdess, stable
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Art of Willy Pogany
One might be forgiven for not recognising the name #WilliamAndrew(Willy)Pogany (1882-1955) but once one sees his artwork he becomes very memorable. Earlier this week, I acquired a copy of #TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner by #SamuelTaylorColeridge. Pogany was born Vilmos Andreas Pogany in Hungary … Continue reading
Posted in Modern prints
Tagged mariner, maritime, ocean, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, sea, seaman, Willy Pogany
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Art by Design
It is not often that I acquire works by living artists but this man – one might say – is not an artist per se. He does not make a living as one imagines an artist to be for he … Continue reading
Posted in Modern prints, Uncategorized, Watercolour paintings
Tagged cow, graphic design, logo, Milton Glaser, New York, tag
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From Gauffering to Gauging
Two topics which were often seen in years past but which are seldom seen today. This chapters’ focus is on two books which I have recently come across. One gauffered and the other an instruction manual for gauging. We … Continue reading
Posted in Lithographs, Modern prints
Tagged books, Charles Leadbetter, gauffering, gauging, pages
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Pedro Lobos Art
I came across two woodcuts this past week. They originate from an artist previously unknown to me and from a country which I have no other art works from. Neither have I visited this country. Even the continent in which … Continue reading
Posted in Lino/woodcuts, Modern prints
Tagged children, Chile, dance, dress, Pedro Lobos
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