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SORRY THIS IS THE ACTUALLY PAPER, IT DIDNT WORK
Tony Bassett
Wood Relief
9-16-08
The topic I plan to use for each image I create for this class will consistently involve either one or a pair of “eyes.” Eyes have always been very a beautiful and mysterious part of the human body that I’ve been fascinated with and I feel that they can be either very simple or extremely complex, which is going to be interesting in woodcut printmaking (which is the oldest method of printmaking). I have always had trouble as an artist deciding on a topic for a set of works, but for once I am confident that this will lead me in the right direction. I feel as if it’s always the hardest to start anything, but once you get going and the more you get into it, the more things begin to work out.
The eyes I draw will set the tone of each image hopefully expressing the tone and mood. As well, I will attempt to represent a different style of art from a different part of the world. The first drawing I attempt on a piece of wood will be derived from both Egyption and Arabic art. This is going to be quite a challenge because I researched the internet looking for Middle Eastern Woodcut printmakers and I really couldn’t find anything. My main interest in Middle Eastern art is their amazing calligraphy. I have always been obsessed with Arabic, Islamic, & Japanese calligraphy, as well as other foreign exotic languages and their unusual ability to configure an entire drawing by using letters and words from their own language. One key area that I plan to excel in as the semester goes on is the background of my woodcut images. To start off with, creating a flat image is acceptable but as I get more comfortable with woodcutting and I figure out what is easy and what is hard, Id like to make my drawings more 3-dimensional.
After doing some research, I discovered that woodblock printmaking was originally made for just printing text. Two printing methods perfected in the early and mid -nineteenth century, lithography and photography, soon began to compete with the wood engraving and eventually supplanted it as a mass medium. However, there was a revival of interest in the woodcut technique among artists, like Paul Gauguin and German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (whose work I greatly admire even though it’s a little too dark). This is positive considering most of my topic for the semester has to do with calligraphy and styles of text. One of the most amazing features of doing a woodcut print, is the wood-like texture you pick-up in your background. A few Japanese printmakers caught my attention when I was trying to find an artist to base my work upon. I admired their work but what I loved about the images they carved was the fluidity and motion that they always captured. It is like I can physically feel the strong wind blowing Hokusai Katsushika’s wave in his masterful “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” print. Another amazing woodcut artist I came across was jazz musician Chad Hoffman and his print “One More Maistro.” Like Katsushika’s connection with the ocean, you can really feel Hoffman’s love affair with music in this particular print. The colors, the movement, the energy etc. all represent characteristics that I am looking to capture in my own work. Obviously, we are only working in black and white in this class, so unfortunately, I can’t use color as a means of expression. But I plan on attempting to carve as many grey mediums as I can get out of a piece of wood in each of my images. I am definitely not an abstract artists but I like playing with reality. The final artist whom I found very interesting was Carol Philips, who is a self-represented printmaker who does mostly fantasy or surreal type imagery. Her print titled “Awakening Spring” is another example of something very close to what I’m trying to accomplish. The subject of the composition is what struck me the most and this is because I am terrible at being completely original with my work. I wish I was able to pick up a pen and draw something like that completely on my own, but I’ve never been able to draw anything without some direction from an outside source. Here are a few images that I will use to guide me on my first piece. If there are any questions, please let me know…
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