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Wood Engraving
Wood engraving is a printmaking technique, in which an artist works an image 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, the blocks for wood engravings deteriorate less quickly than the copper plates of 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 u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bewick may refer to: *Bewick, East Riding of Yorkshire, a deserted village in Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire#Civil parish, Aldbrough parish, England *Bewick, Northumberland, a civil parish in England **Old Bewick *Bewick Island, Queensland, Australia *Bardowick (''Bewick'' in Low Saxon), a municipality in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany *Bewick (surname), includes a list of people with that name *Bewick's swan, ''Cygnus bewickii'' *Bewick's wren, ''Thryomanes bewickii'' See also *Berwick (other) *Buick (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tirzah Garwood
Eileen Lucy "Tirzah" Garwood (11 April 1908 – 27 March 1951) was a British artist and engraver, a member of the Great Bardfield Artists. The artist Eric Ravilious was her husband from 1930 until his death in 1942. Early life Garwood was born in 1908 in Gillingham, Kent, the third of five children. Her father Frederick Scott Garwood (1872–1944) was an officer in the Royal Engineers. Her name "Tirzah" was bestowed by her siblings, a reference to Tirzah in the Book of Numbers in the Bible, and possibly a corruption of a reference by her grandmother to "Little Tertia", that is, the third child. She and her family accompanied her father on army postings to Croydon, Littlehampton and then Eastbourne.James Russell, ‘Garwood , Eileen Lucy irzah(1908–1951)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 201accessed 12 Oct 2016/ref> Garwood was educated at West Hill School in Eastbourne from 1920 to 1924, and then at Eastbourne School of Art from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forme (printing)
In typesetting, a forme (or form) is imposed by a ''stoneman'' working on a flat ''imposition stone'' when he assembles the loose components of a page (or number of simultaneously printed pages) into a locked arrangement, inside a chase, ready for printing. See also * History of western typography * Typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), and ... References {{Letterpress Typography Letterpress printing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rhinoceros (NGA 1964
''Rhinoceros'' (french: Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama ''The Theatre of the Absurd'', although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is initially criticized in the play for his drinking, tardiness, and slovenly lifestyle and then, later, for his increasing paranoia and obsession with the rhinoceroses. The play is often read as a response and criticism to the sudden upsurge of Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, fascism, responsibility, logic, mass movements, mob mentality, philosophy and morality. Plot Act I The play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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