Leonard Baskin - Woodcuts. Very early in his career, Baskin came to the conclusion that sculpture was the medium best suited to expressing fundamental human states such as grief, love, hope, and dignity.
Its very monumentality makes it an art of witness, not ideology. For expression of a more direct political nature, in the late 40’s Baskin turned to printmaking, the perfect medium for a young man with Communist sympathies. Prints were cheap, easily distributed, and their message could be plain. Text might even be cut directly into the block as was done with many of Baskin’s earliest works With its intricate network of sinewy anatomical lines, delicate and twisted, Baskin found in wood engraving a way to depict both the inner maelstrom and the outer physicality of the human form at once. Baskin almost single-handedly revived the Monumental sized woodcut as an art form, but he was also comfortable working on a miniature scale. Spring Collage Vote. Hello fabulous readers!
If I haven't mentioned before, spring is one of my favorite times of year. I enjoy the blossoms, the green, the chirping birds accompanied by the snow melt, the rushing rivers, and long bike rides. I hope you are having lovely spring in your place in the world. Now, it is time to vote for your favorite spring collage! I am super impressed and inspired by the entries, and find it challenging to even decide on my favorite one. *Vote by commenting on your favorite collage and state the # . #1 Amanda"What I love about spring is lightness. . #2 Casandra"Top ten things I like about spring: 1. . #3 Elise"My collage is 4x12 and made on a piece of corkboard. . #4 Bella"What I really like about spring is that feeling of life and hope. . #5 Jason"Description :Girl with rope.
. #6 Karen Beth"A friend of mine now owns this one-of-a-kind original collage that I did. . #8 Matt"Here's a collage I came up with. . #10 Paris"Spring Spring Fever . . . Surreal Collage Art by Kenneth Rougeau. "Offer Me Solutions" Kenneth Rougeau composes creative collage constructions that are frequently surreal and sometimes downright silly.
His first serious digital endeavor was to create a series of 18 fantasy images as illustrations for Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Since then he has also created a second series based on Through The Looking Glass. "Who Stole The Tarts? " "A Quiet Hour" Ken works primarily in the digital medium, as it allows the most freedom of expression, but he does thoroughly enjoy creating rough hewn, one-of-a-kind original paper & mixed media collages whenever he can.
"de Composition 3" "Patience" Ken’s most recent digital collage series, Ascensions, combines vintage anatomical images with fairy-like butterfly wings to create a sorrowfully evocative set of surrealistic scenes. "Metamorphosis" "Miss Secretary" Kenneth Rougeau has created numerous other, non-serial digital collages as well. Kurt Schwitters. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.
Early influences and the beginnings of Merz, 1887-1922[edit] Das Undbild, 1919, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Hanover[edit] Kurt Schwitters was born on 20 June 1887, at No.2 Rumannstraße,[1][2] Hanover, the only child of Edward Schwitters and his wife Henriette (née Beckemeyer). His parents were proprietors of a ladies' clothes shop. After studying art at the Dresden Academy alongside Otto Dix and George Grosz, (although Schwitters seems to have been unaware of their work, or indeed of contemporary Dresden artists Die Brücke[3]), 1909–15, Schwitters returned to Hanover and started his artistic career as a post-impressionist.
Schwitters spent the last one and half years of the war working as a technical draftsman in a factory just outside Hanover. He married his cousin Helma Fischer on 5 October 1915. "In the war, things were in terrible turmoil. Der Sturm[edit]