Alexandra Nechita Lithograph

Alexandra Nechita is a Romanian-American cubist and mural painter. She began working in pen and ink at the age of two, graduating to watercolors by the age of five and then to oils by the age of seven. Due to her raw talent said to be comparable to that of Picasso and Matisse, Nechita was able to gain worldwide attention and her career transcended to an unimaginable level for such an adolescent painter. Dubbed Petite Picasso, Nechita works in the cubist modes of Picasso and Braque, but with an emphasis on magical symbolism. To this day, she remains one of the most famous painters of the last three decades.

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Figurative art stands in contrast to abstract art, which is more expressive than representational. The oldest-known work of figurative art is a figurative painting — specifically, a rock painting of an animal made over 40,000 years ago in Borneo. This remnant of a remote past has long faded, but its depiction of a cattle-like creature in elegant ocher markings endures.

Since then, figurative art has evolved significantly as it continues to represent the world, including a breadth of works on paper, including printmaking. This includes woodcuts, which are a type of relief print with perennial popularity among collectors. The artist carves into a block and applies ink to the raised surface, which is then pressed onto paper. There are also planographic prints, which use metal plates, stones or other flat surfaces as their base. The artist will often draw on the surface with grease crayon and then apply ink to those markings. Lithographs are a common version of planographic prints.

Figurative art printmaking was especially popular during the height of the Pop art movement, and this kind of work can be seen in artist Andy Warhol’s extensive use of photographic silkscreen printing. Everyday objects, logos and scenes were given a unique twist, whether in the style of a comic strip or in the use of neon colors.

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