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Artist Birthdays December 22 – JOHN CROME
JOHN CROME (December 22, 1768 – April 22, 1821) Nationality: English Field: Painting, printmaking Art Movement: Romanticism ARTiFact: In 1803, he founded the Norwich School of painters, a small group...
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Artist Birthdays December 28 – FELIX VALLOTTON
FELIX VALLOTTON (Dec. 28, 1865 – Dec. 29, 1925) Nationality: Swiss-born/French Field: Painting, printmaking Art Movement: The Nabis ARTiFact: The woodcuts he produced during the 1890s were recognized...
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Artist Birthdays December 31 – HENRI MATISSE
HENRI MATISSE (December 31, 1869 – November 3, 1954) Nationality: French Field: Painting, sculpture, printmaking Art Movement: Fauvism ARTiFact: In 1888 he passed the bar exam and began to practice...
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The Evolution of Printmaking from Masters to Modern Artists
If you were to survey the Park West Gallery Collection, among other media, you’d find many works of art categorized as various types prints – lithographs, serigraphs, etchings, engravings and giclees -...
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Fear and Folly on a Snow Day
Plate 12 – “Three Gentlemen and Three Dancing Ladies” (1815-1824) from Francisco Goya’s “Los Proverbios”/”Los Disparates”. “First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must...
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Focusing on Matisse as a Printmaker at the Tampa Museum of Art
“Young Girl Leaning on Her Elbows in front of Flowered Screen” (1923) by Henri Matisse. ©2009 Succession H. Matisse/Artists, Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy American Federation of Arts. TAMPA...
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The Printmaker’s Art
Detail from Albrecht Dürer’s ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” from “The Apocalypse: Revelation of Saint John the Divine’” (ca. 1497). EDINBURGH — A collection of iconic prints by some of the...
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Artist Birthdays, October 25 – Pablo Picasso
PABLO PICASSO (October 25, 1881 – April 8, 1973) Nationality: Spanish Field: Painting, sculpture, printmaking Art Movement: Cubism ARTiFact: In Picasso’s artistic life, lasting more than 75 years, he...
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The Fine Art of Engraving [Video]
From Albrecht Durer to Pablo Picasso, the technically precise fine art of engraving has been practiced by various masters throughout the decades of art history. Park West Gallery artist Linda Le Kinff...
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Japanese Woodcut Print Collection at Park West Gallery
Park West Gallery is excited to offer for sale an impressive collection of 19th Century Japanese Woodcut prints created by more than 25 different talented woodblock artists. Following, we present a few...
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Scott Jacobs Visits Alex Gockel’s Studio in Germany [Video]
What happens when two Park West Gallery artists collaborate? Scott Jacobs recently visited Alex Gockel‘s workshop in Lüdinghausen, Germany to try his hand at the ancient printmaking technique of...
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