"Grafiikka" - printmaking: woodcut

I love the (often) black-and-white world of prints. In Finnish this type of art is called "grafiikka" - graphics.

First there was the woodcutting. Woodcutting is carving an image on a block of wood, and then transferring this image on paper with ink. Some woodcuts can be VERY finely detailed.

 as James Grashow's prints show... Amazing work...

Margaret Burroughs - Black Venus

Xiang Silou - Residence Among Flowers

Yes, it is a woodcut.

A lot of my favorite covers and illustrations are made in woodcut, 

like these by Andrew Davidson for Naomi Novik.

Rather Pauline Baynes-que by Wharton Esherick
So simple and perfect in its crudeness...

Cat-nap by Jacques Hnizdovsky

An Yumin

Dürer made his illustrations in woodcut... talk about intrigate and detailed!

Gustav-Adolf Mossa

A French symbolist, 28.1.1883-25.5.1971

Odd Nerdrum: White Summer Portrait

Harriet Halhed

born 1850 in Tower Hill, Australia, died 1933 in London, UK

Lovely Victorian artist... wonderful use of paintbrushes and all, but it's practically impossible to find any pictures of her paintings! That's very upsetting.

Ferdinand Keller: Sheheredzade

Jacques Poirier

Jacques Poirier (1928-2002) was a French painter. His paintings were done in the realist "Trompe l'Oeil" style with a mastery and a poetry rarely seen in this genre.

Emile Friant - embarrassed child