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=**Webquest Research Project (50 points)**= Due 4/20 (Presentations will be the same day)

1. Choose a printmaker from the below list (or type in a name of one you discover below). Do a webquest and find at least 2 prints created by this printmaker. Click on 'Edit the Page' when you know what you would like to add. Type the links to the printmaker's work under the heading of the artist's name. //**You will need to write a paragraph about what you noticed about this printmaker and his/her work (with a brief description of the work).**// It is highly recommended that you type the information into a word document before you copy and paste to the wiki. This paragraph should be included below your links. Click the 'Save' button so that your edits are saved. Be prepared to present this printmaker in class. You will be assessed on your ability to describe the chosen prints (including what they are, how they are made) and reactions to them (25 points). You will also be assessed on the quality of your written paragraph (and completion) (25 points).

Recommended list of printmakers (feel free to add more):

Lauren Balint Prints: [|Poverty] [|Hunger] Kathe Kollwitz lived during the turn of the 20th century and World War I. Her prints reflected the hardships and the social conditions of the time. She married a doctor and many of his patients were the urban poor which she used as models within her artwork. Her etching and dry-point print, “Poverty”, she shows a mother grieving over her tiny child. In 1914, her youngest son, Peter, was killed in action and she began to produce anti-war artwork that later became anti-war propaganda posters. Most of these anti-war artworks showed the impact of the war on women. Many other works by Kollwitz show the grief and anguish of a woman figure or the effect of a certain hardship on a family, “Hunger”, a woodcut shows just this. She used a large amount of black within her prints which created tenebrism and added shock value to the prints. Also in her etchings, Kollwitz creates a variety of lines which produces a chaotic mood and the viewer can feel the anguish that the mother feels (in “Poverty”). I believe that I was drawn into Kollwitz’s prints because the way they made me feel for the female figure. Her images are almost haunting and they draw the viewer in because at a distance, you can’t see all the detail within the mother’s face and you can barely make out the delicate white lines within the darkness.
 * Kollwitz, Käthe (1867-1945)**

**Grace Albee (1890-1985)**
Meredith Stalker __**Prints:**__ [|Antibes, Southern France] [|Fountain, Jardin du Luxembourg]

Grace Albee was an American printmaker known for her work in linocuts and woodblock prints. Her original method of printmaking was linocut. She and her husband moved their family to France in between the wars. Her husband’s work was mostly figurative so was Grace was limited to working mostly with landscapes and still-lifes. While living in France she took a class to learn woodblock techniques, which then became her primary material to work with. The prints above are both examples of her landscapes created on wood. The images tend to focus on the homier areas within Paris and the countryside. What make her prints so intriguing are the intricacies and details that she includes. In //Antibes// and //Fountain// as well, she uses multiple techniques to give each element within the scene texture accurate to what it was in real life. This is what drew me to her style of printmaking, the ability to bring realistic images into the woodcut process. Some areas of her prints come off as statics, such as the water in //Fountain,// however, her techniques to cut and mark the wood make the print look as if it were done in another medium. The ability for the prints to appear to be other mediums shows how talented she was at what she did.

**Mabel Dwight (1876-1955)**
Caitlin Kubera Prints: [|Clinch] [|In the Crowd] Mabel Dwigh was an American social realist that captured the essence of everyday life in her prints. She trained as an artist in San Fransisco and Paris but after many years of being a successful illustrator in New York, she began making lithographs in 1927. Her scenes consist of New Yorkers engaged in everyday activities, such as sitting on a park bench, riding the subway or buying hats. In, “The Clinch, Movie Theater” Dwight uses a variety of lines and tones to create the comedic scene. She is careful to make sure the expression of every person in the crowd can be detected, whether it is through their face or body language. Dwight effortlessly moved from satire to tragedy in the lives of the people portrayed in her prints. She is known for her lithographs that tapped into the reality of living through the Great Depression. Urban, social and political issues were all depicted in the New Deal’s Federal Art Project. In “In the Crowd” she captures the desperation, despair and uncertainty of a woman standing in a crowd. I noticed the great detail Dwight puts into every print. Even the people in the background of the print are represented realistically. She is able to establish a range of values that add dimension and life to her prints.

Jeremy Weber ** [|Yoro Waterfall in Mino Province] [|Mount Fuji Seen Below a Wave at Kanagawa] Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist who specialized in painting and printmaking. He was one of the leading experts in Japanese painting of his time. While his early works gained Hokusai fame and popularity in Japan, his later works especially those belonging to his series of prints on Mount Fuji would escalate his name to international recognition and praise. The central themes for Katsushika woodblock prints were mostly of natural elements and landscapes and of everyday life in Japan. Looking at the links I have included one can see Hokusai’s exceptional skill in creating well organized and overall appealing compositions. In his prints of Yoro Waterfall and Mount Fuji a wide variety of lines and interesting textural elements add to the interest and grandeur of the works. In Yoro Waterfall the textures are especially worthy of a second look as the artist has clearly spent a great deal of time achieving the variety of successful textures that serve to emulate the surfaces of the images depicted. The color schemes in these prints, like those in most of Hokusai’s works are kept simple and consistent in the use of earth tones, blues, and oranges. My overall reaction to the work of Katsushika Hokusai is that of great respect and overall enjoyment. His works are inspiring in that they clearly display the artist’s skill and craftsmanship, which further adds to the natural appeal of the subject matter and compositions.
 * Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849)
 * Prints:**

Elise Zigrossi [|Charmin Billy] [|Shadow of the Whip][|Charmin Billy Video] William T. Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana in 1937 and became known as an American contemporary artist in the 1960’s. Wiley works in a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film and performance, but has always remained a dedicated printmaker. Wiley began to make art when Abstract Expressionism was taking the world by storm. Over the years Wiley rejected the ideas of minimalism, conceptual art, and other trends by developing a style all his own. Wiley’s works in etchings and lithographs often deal with serious subject matter such as war, death, and current political and social issues, and also some spontaneous pieces, but Wiley is deeply committed to the overall meaning of each work. The artist often listens to the news while working in his studio acting like an intermediary between the two media. His love of language is also often combined in his paintings, drawings, and prints. Wiley adds copious amounts of text making his audience, unconsciously, to read his artwork. He explains that he has always done this, since childhood, that he draws what he hears as well as including what is in front of him. His work is often described as autobiographical since he often includes his reaction and reflections within his world. Wiley’s art is very direct and simple, but they are often ambiguous which allow for a broad interpretation. His cartoon-like imagery seduces his audience into a closer examination of the art and the message he is sending.
 * William T. Wiley (1937- )**
 * Prints:**

Betsy Morningstar [|Grey Ribbon] [|Margrit Smiles] Alex Katz is not a man who can settle for just one medium of printmaking. He is constantly dabbling in different mediums in order to achieve the desired effect in his prints. Whether his is working with a silkscreen, lithograph, woodblock, etching or aquatint, Katz’s style is always evident. His images are always depicted very simply in a flattened 2-dimentional manor, with blocked out color in calming hues. Close up portraits of dark-haired beauties are Katz’s most popular subject matter. His women are always viewed in a very classy way, with a great amount of poise and impeccable fashion. His women of the day to day always have an innate sense of knowing just what to wear, and how to feel comfortable and natural while doing so. It seems as if these women are either on their way out, or simply enjoying themselves on a day at the beach. Katz is still producing art today, and is in his early 80’s.
 * Alex Katz**
 * Prints:**

**Wanda Gág (1893-1946)** Kristina Dahlgren [|Spring in the Garden] [|Franklin Stove] [|Spinning Wheel]
 * Prints:**

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Wanda Gág’s prints often look like twisted fantasies to me. Amidst the fun organic lines lies a distorted world, many of her prints are based on fairy tales. Her prints are interesting because they look like a warped reality with real and surreal elements. Most of her prints have a sort of dark creepiness to them that reminds me of Tim Burton movies. She experimented with many different mediums, but her favorite appears to have been lithography and occasional woodcarving. Her woodblocks have a lot more black in them and more severe contrast, but her style remains the same from her subject matter to her mark making. Gág’s parents were German immigrants and she was born in Minnesota in 1893. She managed to graduate high school while raising her 6 younger siblings after her father's death and mother's illness. She wrote and illustrated a children’s book called //Millions of Cats// and illustrated many other children's books during her career. Many of her prints were reproduced posthumously.=====

Trevor Surgener [|Ocean with Cross #1] [|Ocean Surface]
 * Celmins, Vija (b. 1939-present)**
 * Prints:**

Vija Celmins, was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938. Vija Celmins is known extensively for her 3-Dimensional work on a 2 Dimensional plane. She works entirely from photographs that she takes. She addresses these photographs as her “subject matter” as the focus of her works and exploration. The bulk of Celmins’ recognition in her work is in which the meticulous and intensely realistic way she approaches printmaking, painting and drawing. In printmaking, Celmins uses lithographic pencil on stone, mezzotint on copper, and engraving on wood to get the incredibly realistic results in her prints that she is world renowned for.

[|Art Journals-Vija Celmins]
 * Additional Works, Medias, etc**.

Emma Hughey http://faculty.evansville.edu/rl29/art105/img/daumier_transonian.jpg http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/data/13030/m7/ft9k4009m7/figures/ft9k4009m7_00150.gif http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t067/T067912A.jpg (lawyer fervently arguing his case before a panel of dozing judges)
 * Daumier, Honore (1808-1879)**
 * Prints:**

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Honore Daumier was a french painter, printmaker, sculptor and cartoonist. He worked primarily with lithography to produce his political and social print pieces. Daumier attended the Académie Suisse for a short period before becoming an apprentice for Alexandre Lenoir. His assignments included printing for musicians and advertisers. He started off drawing caricatures with conte crayons onto wood and lithography stone. Honore Daumier’s independent work addressed the behavioral and social wrongs of society. The controversial work became very influential for the time. The images all showed people raw behavior and corruption of the french justice system.=====

Tiffany Cook Prints: [|Le Divan Japonais] [|L'Estampe originale]
 * Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901)

Printmaker and painter Henri De Toulouse Lautrec was born in 1864 and throughout his short 36 years became widely known for his “sketch-turn-print” craftsmanship. He studied with artists such as Van Gogh and gained color and technique inspiration from Edgar Degas. Lautrec’s composition inspiration came from the nightlife in Montmartre in Paris where there was a plethora of brothels, cabarets, cafes, and restaurants. “Le Devan Japonais” is a highly recognizable and typical lithographic work by Lautrec. His use of color is consistent throughout most all of his works accented by strong black lines and silhouette-like figures. Lautrec was a master of composition and placement. Often commissioned to do work for posters, advertisements, and books, he had a strong concept of combining word and image which became essential in many of his commercial prints.The print was likely painted onto the plates by a professional painter. Small editions were made in 50 to 100 copies on Velin or Japan paper. His editions were not numbered and not signed. “L'Estampe originale”- This print portrays a printmaker in his shop hard at work on the left side of the composition and at right Jane Avril a popular and lover performer from the time, and one dear to Lautrec’s heart. Although Lautrec was known for sketching and printing famous people of the “Belle Epoque,” this particular print lets us see a little more of what the artist loved when it came to art. It is ironic that the printmaker in this image is not himself, but yet it still portrays his own craft and Avril’s admiration of that craft. **

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849) Tamayo, Rufino (1899-1991) Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) Ando (1797-1858) Daumier, Honore (1808-1879)@ Teraoka, Masami (b. 1936)@ Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901)@ Hogarth, William (1697-1764)@ Redon, Odilon (1840-1916)@ Posada, José Guadalupe (1851-1913)@ Alex Katz (b. 1927)@ Wayne, June (1918-) Phillips, Walter J. (1884-1963) von Herkomer, Sir Hubert (1849-1914)@ Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778) Yoshitoshi, Tsukioka (1839-1892 Thrash, Dox (1893-1965) Cassandre, Adolphe Mouron (1901-1979)@ Gág, Wanda (1893-1946)@ Bone, Muirhead (1876-1953) Masereel, Frans (1889-1972) Shahn, Ben (1898-1969)@ Albee, Grace (1890-1985) Utamaro, Kitagawa (1753-1808) Burgkmair, Hans the Elder (1473-1531)@ Wiley, William T. (1937- )@ Ashevak, Kenojuak Bracquemond, Felix (1833-1914) Bochner, Mel (b. 1940)@ Biddle, George (1883-1973)@ Dwight, Mabel (1876-1955)@ White, Charles Wilbert (1918-1979)@ Celmins, Vija (b. 1939)@