Video: Sea, Harbors, Homes: Woodcut Reproduction by Don Gorvett
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
“With an artistic sense of color, Don Gorvett creates images with elegant and evocative tonal harmonies not usually associated with woodcuts,” says Michael Carver, curator of the Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, Maine. … Don's works almost always depict the sea, ships and houses, but, despite the repetition of the subjects, one wants to look at his prints again and again.
Don Gorvett says that he chose reproductive woodcuts because of the excitement that accompanied the process of creating the engraving. “Cutting lines on a wooden surface is like drawing and painting in three dimensions,” the artist explains.
No less than the very technique of creating reproductive woodcuts, the plots of his works are also important for the artist: "In a sense, they represent a philosophical point of view … in fact, these are not even images, but thoughts and ideas."
The landscapes of New England had a great influence on the plots of Don Gorvett's prints. According to the artist, this area is full of great architecture that reflects the times gone by. There are a large number of harbors, and the cities where they are engaged in sailing are beautiful. It is not surprising that admiring such a locality and being inspired by seascapes, the author reproduces them in his engravings.
The woodcut technique consists in applying a drawing on a wooden board, and then using special tools, the artist hollows out the gaps between the lines. Then paint is applied to the wooden blank and the image is imprinted on paper.
A resident of Ogunquith since 1990, Gorvett graduated from high school at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Now the master's works are in the collections of the Museum of Art in Portland, the Museum of American Art in Ogunquit, the National Geographic Library of Washington and others. The artist's engravings can be seen on the website.
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