. International studio. f the art there aswell as elsewhere in the world. When you and I began to be interested in art,the thing that passed for wood engraving was areproductive process involving the transfer of anartists work in another medium—painting, washor pen drawing—into the black and white illustra- tinctive qualities of one art into the mechanics ofanother which had lost its own individuality. Thistone-engraving was so very fine in its field—par-ticularly in the work of Timothy Cole and HenryWolf in America—that it persisted long as a sub-stitute for the mechanical half-tone reproduct
. International studio. f the art there aswell as elsewhere in the world. When you and I began to be interested in art,the thing that passed for wood engraving was areproductive process involving the transfer of anartists work in another medium—painting, washor pen drawing—into the black and white illustra- tinctive qualities of one art into the mechanics ofanother which had lost its own individuality. Thistone-engraving was so very fine in its field—par-ticularly in the work of Timothy Cole and HenryWolf in America—that it persisted long as a sub-stitute for the mechanical half-tone reproductionand still crops up at times in our magazines. Perhaps the interest in Japanese prints hadsomething to do with it, or perhaps it was merely aquestioning of all the arts at the end of the cen- tion that could be used cheaply with magazine tury, or a happy reflex of the unhappy art nou-text. The engraver no longer needed and seldom veau movement; at any rate a few artists began two fifty june 1922 mriAL scroti©. to experiment, about twenty fairly true to the wood (although ^ BV ALEXANDER GERBIG years ago, with the wood medium there is a good deal of going in the old fashion—or without regard to any around black lines instead of cutting away with fashion. Instead of copying other mens paintings white ones). It is typical of the best work of its and designs on the block, and engraving in a day, and it has by no means lost its power to method calculated to compete with the current please the eye quickly and yet with something pretty half-tones of commerce, they became more than catchmess. But when it is compared painter-engravers instead of reproductive en- with the other illustrations one does not need the gravers. They set out consciously to rediscover date on its face to suggest that it is the oldest of and to respect the distinctive limitations and the lot. Art has moved away from this sort of possibilities of the wood as a medium of expression,and they inaugurated
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