Showing posts with label woodcuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodcuts. Show all posts
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Born today... Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), March 20, 43 BC
All things are always changing,
But nothing dies. The Spirit comes and goes,
Is housed wherever it wills, shifts residence
From beasts to men, form men to beasts, but always
it keeps on living. As the pliant wax
Is stamped with new designs, and is no longer
What once it was, but changes form, and still
Is pliant wax, so do I teach that spirit
Is evermore the same, though passing always
To ever-changing bodies.
-Metamorphoses Book XV 165-8
image: God Pan, woodcut from Metamorphoses 1498
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Metamorphoses,
Ovid,
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Friday, November 25, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wilhelm Laage (1868-1930) ...Final, woodcut 1899
The woodcut with its dark masses, with its "face" striving out of chaos to the light, simple, simple and yet immensely strong in the language, I needed, and jubilantly I clung to him as he said to me: "Take Me, I will help you to express what is raging and roaring within you. " Like a demon, he always stood before me and drove me to restless work. Soon I realized its value for my art. WL 1917
Friday, July 22, 2016
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Friday, April 22, 2016
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Axl Leskoschek ~ Musik, woodcut 1979
Friday, November 7, 2014
Monday, December 2, 2013
Woodcut... The Crucifixion...1830
Rennes, France c1830
Spina, clavi, lancea,
Mite corpus perforarunt:
Unda manat et cruor:
Terra, pontus, astra, mundus,
Quo lavantur flumine!
Thorns, nails, and spear pierce that gentle
Body: water flows forth, and blood: in which
stream are cleansed the earth, the ocean, the
stars, and the world!
from the hymn Crux fidelis
Mite corpus perforarunt:
Unda manat et cruor:
Terra, pontus, astra, mundus,
Quo lavantur flumine!
Thorns, nails, and spear pierce that gentle
Body: water flows forth, and blood: in which
stream are cleansed the earth, the ocean, the
stars, and the world!
from the hymn Crux fidelis
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Helen West Heller (1872-1955) ... wood engraving ... ca. 1920's
In the last day the sea will be master
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Edward Topsell ...The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents ... woodcuts 1658
Published in 1658, The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents depicts both real and fantastical creatures in detailed woodcuts. A wide swath of the animal kingdom is represented, including mammals, reptiles,amphibians, insects, and marine life, as well as an array of mythical beasts.
MORE woodcuts HERE
Stultifera navis (Ship of Fools) ... Sebastian Brant... woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer... 1498
Woodcuts attributed to Albrecht Durer. Illustrations from the book
Stulifera navis (Ship of fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by
Johann Bergmann in Basel in 1498
Five Foolish Virgins
The Ship of Sight
Fools far, near and Forever
He Who Judges Others
Of Gods Plagues and Punishments
The Ship of Touch
Of Dancing
Of Luck
Of Scorned Joy
Of Wooing
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Albrecht Dürer,
books,
Sebastian Brant,
Stultifera navis,
woodcuts
Monday, September 2, 2013
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