Picasso began experimenting with linocuts in 1939, creating linocut posters for ceramic exhibitions and bullfighting events. It wasn’t until the mid-1950s that Picasso fully embraced linocuts, during a period spent working in the south of France. I read that he developed a new ( at the time) method of creating prints, before , printers would cut a separate block for each colour, but Picasso cut from a single block, this is what we are currently doing in college!
The technique saved huge amounts of time, but also had its challenges, as it was impossible to reverse any mistakes made during the cutting process. In his early work he would use less colours but his later work could have up to 12 colours in them!
This print, I love. It looks so simple but it's not, the colour is great! Look at the mark making for the sun rays! So loose and confident, something I struggle with when doing Lino cuts. You can just visualise the wrist movement he was doing while carving them! Same with this one below
This one is called Still life under the lamp. The colours in this one, and the detail is much more in-depth and love the shadows of the apples. the colours are so bright and it looks so complex.
When i look at these, and look at the prints of Tom Davidson, that i looked at last week i can see both are complex but in very different ways, so first lets look at the colour.
From what i have seen, Tom Davidson uses very natural colours that you see in landscapes, where as Picasso uses his vibrant colours, they also make the appearance of the print look very flat, where as Tom Davison's are completely photographic.
The mark making on Picasso's lino prints, seem to be a lot bolder and deeper, almost like a statement in itself, each cut is obvious. Tom's prints are finer, more controlled marks.
Both stunning, and both soul destroying, because of how good they are.
This one is called Still life under the lamp. The colours in this one, and the detail is much more in-depth and love the shadows of the apples. the colours are so bright and it looks so complex.
When i look at these, and look at the prints of Tom Davidson, that i looked at last week i can see both are complex but in very different ways, so first lets look at the colour.
From what i have seen, Tom Davidson uses very natural colours that you see in landscapes, where as Picasso uses his vibrant colours, they also make the appearance of the print look very flat, where as Tom Davison's are completely photographic.
The mark making on Picasso's lino prints, seem to be a lot bolder and deeper, almost like a statement in itself, each cut is obvious. Tom's prints are finer, more controlled marks.
Both stunning, and both soul destroying, because of how good they are.
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