Antoine Borel On Sale

Antoine Borel was born in Paris in 1743 and died in 1810. He is a French painter, draftsman and engraver. The son of a portrait painter, Borel first devoted himself to the same kind of painting and then preferred to depict, mostly in watercolor, subjects of manners and political allegories, which he engraved at times. Around 1780, two nasty scenes translated by Jean-Louis Anselin were successful. Then he became almost exclusively designer thumbnails and made himself a name. If in this specialty, he put his talent many times in the service of erotic books of André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat, Montigny or Sade, he also made many compositions for serious works, among which Plutarch (1783), the Theater of the Greeks (1785–89), the Works of Belloy (1787), Charles IX, the tragedy of Chénier (1790); the Works of Regnard (1790). During the Revolution, he designed the Fasts of the French Revolution, the National Assembly, meeting of September 7, 1789, at the moment of the patriotic offer of the first time of the ladies artists, engraved by Ponce, the Last Words and the Death of Mirabeau, engraved by Robert Delaunay, the frontispiece of the almnac of the father Gerard.

Bring energy and an array of welcome colors and textures into your space by decorating with figurative fine-art prints and works on paper.

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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