Leo Guida Lithograph
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1960s Contemporary Portrait Prints
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1950s Contemporary Landscape Prints
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1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Lithograph, Monotype
1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1960s Contemporary More Prints
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
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1960s Contemporary More Prints
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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1970s Contemporary Abstract Prints
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Prolific throughout the 1960s and 1970s, artist Leo Guida was an influential Italian painter and printmaker.
Beginning in 1969, Guida served as a teacher for nearly two decades at the Liceo Artistico in Latina. While he worked with watercolor paints to create much of his known art, he produced a wide range of graphic prints that is representative of his talents.
Guida worked with Chinese ink and was fluent in a variety of printmaking techniques, which included chalcography, engraving and aquatint. The latter is a technique named for its resemblance to watercolor or ink wash, while engraving is a method of making prints by incising lines into a metal plate with a sharp tool called a burin. Chalcography sees an artist engraving on copper or brass plates.
Guida made art in all kinds of styles over the course of his career. The bulk of his drawings and etchings are richly detailed and fantastical — they feature nudes, imagery from nature and depictions of mythological creatures. Guida’s works on paper show the influence of Spanish printmaker and painter Francisco Goya and are also inclusive of Surrealist flourishes and themes.
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Finding the Right prints-works-on-paper for You
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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