WOODCARVING & ACCESSORIES

Renowned Printmaking Artists From Around The World

A native of Sarajevo, Tanja Softic trained in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (University of Sarajevo) from 1984 up to 1988. In 1989, she was presented a scholarship grant to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she received her MFA. After educating for quite some time at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, in 2000 she became a member of the University of Richmond’s Department of Art and Art History, where she at present teaches. From 1992 until 1995, she worked on a set of 5 handmade artist books, making use of etching as well as letterpress that are included in the scarce book collections of the New York Public Library, Library of Congress and Boston Public Library.

Ángel Botello was a Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist. The artisan critics called him "The Caribbean Gauguin" for his use of striking colors and depictions of tropical island lifestyle. He is considered one of the very best Latin-American post-modern artists and acceptance and interest in his artwork keeps growing today, fetching unheard of public auction pricing. Ángel Botello never attached to any certain artistic school or movement and was a protean artisan: he developed his own artistic style. Botello became a versatile and many-sided artisan who worked well in all creative media at his reach: oil paintings, drawing, printmaking, bronze sculptures, wood carving, taking pictures and mosaics.

Intaglio engraving, as a technique of making prints, was developed in Germany by the 1430s, well after the woodcut print. Engraving had been utilized by goldsmiths to be able to embellish metalwork, including armour, musical instruments and spiritual objects ever since ancient times, and the niello technique, which required scrubbing an alloy into the lines in order to give a contrasting color, also goes back to late antiquity. It has been suggested that goldsmiths started to print impressions of their work to document the style, and that printmaking developed from that.

Martin Schongauer was one of the very first acknowledged artists to take advantage of the copper-engraving method, and Albrecht Dürer is among the most well-known intaglio artisans. Italian as well as Netherlandish engraving began somewhat after the Germans, yet were well developed by 1500. Drypoint and etching were also German inventions of the fifteenth century, most likely by the Housebook Master and Daniel Hopfer respectively. The golden age of artists engraving was 1450-1550, after which the method lost ground to etching as a medium for artists, though engravings continued to be made in massive numbers until after the invention of photography. Today intaglio engraving is mostly utilized for currency, banknotes, passports, and sometimes for high-value postage stamps. The look of engraving is sometimes mimicked for objects like wedding invites by producing an embossment around letters printed by another procedure (such as lithography or offset) in order to indicate the edges of an engraving plate.

Matt Brown has made woodblock prints in Japanese hanga tradition ever since 1993 using Japanese tools and materials. The artist resides in the countryside of New Hampshire, one of the New England states on the East coast of USA - the heartland of the American dream in which the first immigrants from Europe arrived with concepts of freedom, independence as well as the dream of a much better life. Matt Brown's woodblock prints exhibit a lot more than the natural beauties of the US East coast. In the perspective of the observer they show the old as well as real American values.

Printmaking is a very wide medium in art and can be studied nearly anyplace, in art schools or from printmaking artists. Once you know basic principles, you will discover there are numerous ways to make a really good print.

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