'Simplicius' Farewell to the World' — Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'Simplicius’ Farewell To The World' from the suite 'The Adventurous Simplicissimus', wood engraving, 1977, artist's proof apart from the edition of 50. Signed in pe...
Woodcut
Folly of Worshipping Idols
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trouble is not new to religion. Eichenberg illustrated In Praise Of Folly and created this image called Folly of Worshipping Idols and Erasmus was writing in the 16th century. Eras...
Wood, Engraving
Folly of Worshipping Idols
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trouble is not new to religion. Eichenberg illustrated In Praise Of Folly and created this image called Folly of Worshipping Idols and Erasmus was writing in the 16th century. Eras...
Wood, Engraving
Crime and Punishment
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
In 1966, Fritz Eichenberg moved to Rhode Island and chaired the Art Department of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. His wood engravings and lithographs are almost always as...
Wood, Engraving
And His Strength Went From Him (Samson And Delilah)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg created wood engravings to illustrate the biblical scene of Samson and Goliath German born wood engraver and lithographer, Eichenberg studied at the School of Appli...
Wood, Engraving
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H 7.38 in W 5 in
Mlle. Celine and Escort (Celine is a dancer former mistress of Mister Rochester)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg did some original wood engravings for "Jane Eyre." Céline Varens was Adèle's mother and Mr. Rochester's former mistress. A French opera dancer, Céline pretended to ...
Wood, Engraving
Georgiana and Eliza (cousins of Jane Eyre)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg did some original wood engravings for Jane Eyre. This is an image featuring Georgiana And Eliza. As children, Eliza and Georgiana Reed, along with their brother John...
Wood, Engraving
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H 10 in W 8 in
Beethoven (Portrait of German classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Fritz Eichenberg's portrait in wood engraving of Beethoven. Born: December 16, 1770 (baptized: December 17, 1770) - Bonn, Germany Died: March 26, 1827 - Bonn, Germany Ludwig van Bee...
Wood, Engraving
The Rich Man and the Widow
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
In 1966, Eichenberg moved to Rhode Island and chaired the Art Department of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. His wood engravings and lithographs are almost always associa...
Wood, Engraving
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Mrs. Fairfax (Housekeeper at Thornfield Hall in the novel, Jane Eyre)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mrs. Fairfax", is a wood engraving of the fictional character of the housekeeper at Thornfield Hall in the novel "Jane Eyre" (1847) by Charlotte Brontë. Mrs. Fairfax, the widow of ...
Engraving, Wood
Follies of the Courts
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trouble is not new to the courts. Eichenberg illustrated In Praise Of Folly created this image called Folly of the Courts and Erasmus was writing in the 16th century. Erasmus was a...
Wood, Engraving
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Follies of Old Age (Humans do not always grow wiser as they age)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Eichenberg turns his attention to Erasmus's withering look at humans as they age Clearly wisdom was not the trait he foundErasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who...
Wood, Engraving
Human Comedy
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Human Folly is explored in this wood engraving by Eichenberg Eichenberg illustrated In Praise Of Folly created this image called Folly of the Monks and Erasmus was writing in the 1...
Wood, Engraving
Folly of Worshipping Idols
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trouble is not new to religion. Eichenberg illustrated In Praise Of Folly and created this image called Folly of Worshipping Idols and Erasmus was writing in the 16th century. Eras...
Wood, Engraving
The Aquarium (New York)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
It's a depression era glimpse of the New York Aquarium. Well dressed individuals mingle with others down on their luck. The main figure is eyeing the swimming shark almost as if the...
Wood, Engraving
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The Lamentation of Jeremiah (biblical prophet of judgment and hope)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jeremiah was the prophet born in Anathoth, about three miles north of Jerusalem, whose ministry began in the 13th year of Josiah king of Judah (i.e. 627 B.C.E.), and extended for a ...
Wood, Engraving
Follies of the Popes (1500 to 2019 - Whither progress?
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Trouble is not new to religion. Eichenberg illustrated In Praise Of Folly and created this image called Folly of the Popes and Erasmus was writing in the 16th century. Erasmus was ...
Wood, Engraving
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Adele and the Ladies (Rochester's fashion conscious ward in Jane Eyre)
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in New Orleans, LA
Adele, the 10 year-old girl who may be the daughter of Rochester and Celine in "Jane Eyre" is being scrutinized by three women. One is seated on an ornate sofa with a candelabra flic...
Wool, Engraving
Eleanora
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Plano, TX
Elenora. 1981. Wood engraving. 6 7/8 x 3 3/4 (sheet 11 1/8 x 8 1/2). Proof apart from the edition for the Print Club of Cleveland. Printed on white wove paper. Signed and dedicated i...
Engraving, Woodcut
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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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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