Print on Maple

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Comment by Resident Curator on February 19, 2014 at 5:24pm

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These landscape prints on wood veneer are quite nuanced with their graduations of value softly mimicking the underlying grain pattern.   The Print on Maple is especially pleasing with its sweeping arc of lighter clouds moving past the boundary of the printed plate.  The lowered horizon in the landscape accentuates the feeling of misty sky, and weight of impending darker clouds.   It’s what isn’t there that provides tranquil contemplation; nothing interrupts the advancing sweep of fading light. I ’m curious if this piece is an unfixed monotype or monoprinted intaglio.  Even with the detail provided, I don’t know if I’m seeing lines from tarlatan or a burnished aquatint.  The similar image on mahogany has a much grittier essence, and the warm tonality of the wood somehow imposes quicker visual movement along the long tree line.  Studying the similarities and differences between them is certainly a Zen like visual experience.