Special Exhibitions
Against the Grain
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Against the Grain |
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Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
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History of the Woodcut
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Titian
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Titian In Italy, Titian, like Dürer, used woodcuts to preserve and disseminate his pictorial inventions, but whereas Dürer's style was precise and uniform, Titian's lines, in the Venetian manner, are drawn with vigorous, expressive, and irregular strokes.The strength of Titian's drawing unifies the enormous, complex design of The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea , which was printed from twelve blocks on twelve sheets of paper. This monumental print was probably conceived as a wall decoration, a less expensive surrogate for a painting. In other woodcuts executed in the 1620s, Titian began to broaden the expressive potential of landscape, which becomes less a setting for the figural action and more significant as the primary subject of the work. Titian probably felt freer to experiment in prints, for none of the artist's paintings gives landscape such prominence. Page 2 of 8 | On the next page: Color |
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