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Anna Kurtycz
Anna Kurtycz (1970-2019) was a Mexican-Polish graphic artist specializing in wood engraving. Biography Kurtycz was born in Mexico in 1970, as the eldest daughter of the Polish-Mexican avant-garde performance artist Marcos Kurtycz and Mexican economist and author Mercedes Escamilla, and lived in Guadalajara, Mexico for most of her youth. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Guadalajara and she obtained a PhD in Communication from Paris University XIII. From 1990 through 2003 Kurtycz pursued her career as an artist, often combining her artistic talents with her training in Biology and the environment to develop educational programs and materials to promote sustainable development in Latin America. She worked as a consultant in communication and education for Unesco on a number of projects, as well as a correspondent for the Mexican journal El Occidental (2000-2001), and as a freelance contributor to the Mexican newspapers El Jaliscience, Punto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Engraving
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image or ''matrix'' of images into a block of wood. Functionally a variety of woodcut, it uses relief printing, where the artist applies ink to the face of the block and prints using relatively low pressure. By contrast, ordinary engraving, like etching, uses a metal plate for the matrix, and is printed by the intaglio method, where the ink fills the ''valleys'', the removed areas. As a result, wood engravings deteriorate less quickly than copper-plate engravings, and have a distinctive white-on-black character. Thomas Bewick developed the wood engraving technique in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century. His work differed from earlier woodcuts in two key ways. First, rather than using woodcarving tools such as knives, Bewick used an engraver's burin (graver). With this, he could create thin delicate lines, often creating large dark areas in the composition. Second, wood engraving traditionally use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Kurtycz
Marcos Kurtycz (21 March 1934, Pielgrzymowice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Pielgrzymowice – 13 March 1996, Mexico City) was a performance and graphic artist. Background Born in Poland in 1934 as Jan Kurtycz, he moved to Mexico in 1968 where he experimented with graphic design and performance art until 1996. Kurtycz artworks were often complex matrices combining performances and graphic design elements, including photographs, drawings, maps, wax forms, stamps, letters, musical notation and even axes and explosives. His performances and his photographic and print works on paper have influenced Mexico City artists. Kurtycz is known for his use of printing techniques in his graphic artworks. In the 1970s he mobilized his art projects into a challenge to the art establishment, including mail bombs (a series of artworks posted as letters), intended to push art establishment leaders beyond traditional conceptions of what constitutes art. Marcos Kurtycz is the father of graphic artist A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
