Word: woodcuts
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...gouges are as calloused as a carpenter's; the eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark commentary on Franco...
People in eight U.S. cities, from Columbia, S.C., to Minneapolis, are currently seeing eight identical art exhibitions-and it is all done without any gimmickry, such as the use of reproductions or copies. That is one of the nice things about prints: each one, whether it be an etching, woodcut, lithograph or serigraph, is just as much an "original" as the first. The works shown on the next two pages are, necessarily, reproductions; tiny dots of color simulate a photograph of the original. But the prints that collectors buy and that museumgoers see come right from the hand...
...main reason why not one should miss The Seventh Seal is that it is a masterfully constructed piece of cinematic art. The cast performs with high distinction; lighting, costumes, sets, and makeup evoke the late Middle Ages with the authenticity of a Durer woodcut; and the entry of the flagellants is surely one of the most appalling scenes ever filmed. But Bergman's Gothic allegory will also trouble audiences philosophically, for it retains its symbolic ambiguity to the end and will not permit a facile interpretation or glib dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans...
...theme of this present group seems to be stated in a remarkably attractive little print entitled "The World Upside-Down." In this woodcut, a small boy stands with his hands wrapped around his ankles, his head and shoulders dangling upside-down between his wide-spread legs, his eyes carefully studying the world in inverted perspective. This seems to be exactly the sort of world Miss Siegl attempts to reveal in the rest of her woodcuts, and she is throughly successful...
With the more than reasonable prices which accompany them, the Siegl woodcuts strongly suggest a trip to Mr. Schuster's gallery. To those who have been suggesting that the woodcut is a dying genre, Helen Siegl's work is a refreshing rebuttal...