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Baren Digest              Tuesday, 31 August 1999      Volume 08 : Number 684

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From: Vollmer/Yamaguchi <jy6@columbia.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:14:40 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Baren 5522] Re: Baren Digest V8 #682 

Nice Foxglove, Wanda! I can't believe you had time to draw at Graham's!

And thank you Maria for taking on the organization of #4, and for proposing
a meeting if printmakers. It would be great to be able to work together.

Part of the idea of Ukiyo-e collaboration was that people could specialize
and do what they were best at, the artist, the cutter, the printer.  So
contemplating writing poetry in addition to printmaking, seems contrary to
that idea.  I would prefer to illustrate some great old haiku written by a
poet!

Do you, or anyone else, with all your web savvy, know the address for
getting a ".com" address? I am relying more and more on my site, and want
to be able to tell people to look for my name, instead of the inscrutable
code which is my web address. Thank you!

April Vollmer

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:08:10 -0400
Subject: [Baren 5523] Re: books 

Dear Liz Horton
Welcome to the club!!  And thanks for the compliment, I am really not a
genius (alas), but I really do like the Haiku idea of a book exchange and
reading the posts, it seems like a lot of others like this idea. too.
However, I am willing to go along with any of the great ideas that have been
floating around out there.

I have been interested in doing something in the Book Arts someday so if the
Haiku idea does not fly, that just might be my next endeavor anyway.  Or
perhaps Dave can table it in , in the future.

Maria
Thanks for the volunteering on Exchange 4. I think that is a pretty
responsible job. Also you have to have lots of room to spread 30 portfolios
out to sort. Maybe they would let you do that at the University. Speaking of
which, put me down for a bunk!!!!!

Sarah

Thanks for the new source of paper. I am sending for the catalog today.

Jeanne

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From: Elizabeth Atwood <elizuno@midcoast.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:22:31 -0400
Subject: [Baren 5524] Re: 2nd Hanga 

Delightful, Wanda.....looks like you are mastering the technique!

ElizA

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From: Wanda Robertson <robertson@canby.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:24:52 -0700
Subject: [Baren 5525] Re: Foxfire 

Thanks for the compliments, Ray! Now, I *do* need a clarification of
your statement: "The borders, top and sides, distract me a
bit, box in the flower--perhaps if they were thinner or printed
lighter?" Do you mean the border around the outside edge? Or the lines
in the whole piece?

I know that you and Graham do not use a key-block or lines at all - and
my next block is going to be without lines. I have it in my head that it
is harder to print that way. But I may be completely wrong - we'll see.

Many thanks to all of you who looked at the foxglove and had comments
about it. What a great supportive group this is! 

Speaking of Foxfire, have any of you seen the book by Mikhail Uspensky
"HIROSHIGE One Hundred Views of Edo"? He has one print titled "Fox Fires
by the Iron-Tree at Oji" There are lots of foxes with flames coming out
of their muzzles standing in the dark. This book is wonderful. It's in a
large format, and the prints are clear enough to see how the the pigment
was brushed onto the block & the woodgrain of the blocks in some. One of
the views is framed by a boatman's hairy legs and arms! Another, you're
seeing a view from behind a horse, complete with the leavings of the
horse on the ground! Amazing compositions, and a wonderful book to see
more of the process.

Wanda

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From: "Jeanne N. Chase" <studiojnc@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:37:34 -0400
Subject: [Baren 5526] Re: Foxfire

Wanda
Just wandered over to your print Foxglove. Very simple and graceful. I like
the simplicity very much. sometimes it is difficult to know when to stop.
Especially like the gradation of background colors. YOU DID IT!!!!!!
Congrats.  I still have my first hanga to print.

Jeanne

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From: "Jean Eger" <jeaneger@LanMinds.Com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:51:46 -0700
Subject: [none]

Wanda,
I love the foxglove print.  I hope it will be the start of a series of Hanga
prints about nature.
Jean Eger

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From: Julio.Rodriguez@walgreens.com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:27:35 -0500
Subject: [Baren 5528] Re: web-sites 

With Baseball season all behind me now,  I had some extra web-time last night
and took the opportunity to  visit & re-visit some of the members web-sites and
enjoy the variety and richness of their output. It is truly humbling to be in
the company and to be able to share ideas & techniques with such an accomplished
cast.

Georga's & Horacio's work seem to share common ground on the way they present
the human experience....with their B&W and the roughness of their images......

Maria A.; you  have just done a wonderful work with your web-site.
Congratulations on your recent accomplishments and on
coordinating #4.   How is the puppy ?  Preparate para lo que te espera con el
numero cuatro!

Andy; do you have a current url to your web-site, I had visited you over a year
ago but lost the entry in a recent upgrade. I remember seeing some wonderful B&W
engravings of english landscapes.....I had come across your site while searching
for printing presses & parts.

Bea's work is simply delightful. I enjoyed the simple strokes and the
easy-flowing manner with which her characters are presented. The use of small
patches of color is also very appealing. Is there a place to see more of your
work online ?

Thanks.......Julio Rodriguez

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From: Aqua4tis@aol.com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:47:46 EDT
Subject: [Baren 5529] Re: web-sites 

Julio wrote:
> Georga's & Horacio's work seem to share common ground on the way they 
>present the human experience....with their B&W and the roughness of their 
>images......

julio
   thank you very much   (i am a huge fan of horacios)    also thank you to 
all the other bareners for the kind comments    i too am impressed with 
everyones work and honored to be in such wonderful and talented company   
       thank you dave for making it all possible   :-)
                   georga

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From: Bea Gold <bnj50@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:32:54 -0700
Subject: [Baren 5530] Re: web-sites 

Thank you Julio for your kind words - you can look at the woodblock prints on
beagold.com but it's not finished yet so understand.

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From: Bea Gold <bnj50@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:56:10 -0700
Subject: [Baren 5531] Home at last

We just got home and I picked up my messages - Baren had over 100!  You
people are into new fantastic ideas.

April said - I think Bea is still travelling, but she promised to write up
the Horizons woodcut class in more detail 

Now that I'm home Iand working on the write up of the workshop - we stopped
at the Boston Museum of Fine Art on the way to the airport to continue our
journey to our daughter in Raleigh and granddaughter in Culowee, NC.  We saw
the permanent  Japanese Print Exhibit which is lovely.  I bought two
surprisining inexpensive books which fit right into the current Baren
discussion - Art of Edo Japan - the Artist and the City, 1615-1868 by
Christine Guth ($16.95) and Japanese Color Prints by J. Hiller ($9.95).

More soon.  Bea

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From: Bella1yopp@aol.com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 23:55:47 EDT
Subject: [Baren 5532] Finally! Seeing is believing! 

Thank you Maria!  I have finally seen my work online on your site.  How 
wonderful.  Thank you for the opportunity.  I was curious to see how they 
clear they would be online and how true to color.  They look good.  
I now have a couple of weeks of E-mail to go through now that I am back 
online.  Please if anyone has any comments, I would love to hear them.  
The address is
http://www.mariarango.com

- -Amanda

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From: "Horacio" <horacio@centroin.com.br>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 03:10:42 -0300
Subject: [Baren 5533] Re: web-sites 

Georga and Julio,
Thank you very much for your nice comments about my work. They made me
happy.
Thank you Dave as well.
Horatio.

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From: "Horacio" <horacio@centroin.com.br>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 03:31:43 -0300
Subject: [Baren 5534] RioGravura  

Dear Baren Members
During the next September/October, the City of Rio de Janeiro will promote
RIOGRAVURA, a multishow with 70 simultaneous print exhibitions in 45 museums
and cultural centers, more than 5.000 prints in all techniques. Only masters
allowed (IÕm out, of course).
For example:

Albrecht Duer(1471/1528) Ð 120 prints brought to Brazil in 1808 by Royal
Portuguese Family.

Historical European Prints, 100 prints from Hans Sebald Behan (1500/1550) to
Henry Matisse (1869/1954). including Van Dick, Rembrandt, Goya, Turner,
Gericault, Delacroix, Daumier and Toulouse Lautrec. Also XX century artists:
Magritte, Picasso, Gris, Mir—, Dali and Kathe Kollwitz.

International Print Triennial Cracow 1997 Edition: 400 prints,

Xilon 13 International the traditional Swiss Triennial,

Casa Franca Brasil:  Marc Chagall (25 color woodcuts), HonorŽ Daumier (26
lithographs) AndrŽ Derain (30 color woodcuts), Juan Mir— (24 lithographs)
and Fl‡vio Shir— (26 monotypes)

Japanese  Prints of the Century XVII and XIX: 18 color woodcuts of Hiroshige
(1793/1858) and Hokusai (1760/1849).

Spanish Masters:  More than 100 prints including Goya, Marsal, Baroja,
Solana, Dali, Picasso, Mir—, T‡pies, Saura, Chilida, etc.

Mexican Mask: : 100 Prints of Jose Guadalupe Posada

Contemporaneous French Printmaking: 40 prints of 30 French artists

Jazz: the famous set of 22 prints of Henry Matisse

Ruines and Fantasies:  Giovanni Piranesi (1720/1778) 79 etchings.

American Printmakers: Chuck Close, Jim Dine and Sol Lewitz

And a lot more...

RIOGRAVURA will display also the best prints produced in Brazil: Oswaldo
Goeldi, Adir Botelho, Axl Leskoschek, Ibert Camargo,  Livio Abramo, Lasar
Segall, Marcello Grassmann, Roberto Magalhaus, Carlos Scliar, Roberto Burle
Marx, Anna Bella Geiger etc...

There will be an extensive program of conferences and 5 tends with daily
workshops for school children and the people in general.
There is one artist missing, Rubem Grilo (the master I've mentioned in one
of my  postings) . He is the RIOGRAVURA curator and elegantly declined to
participate. Only a couple of his prints can be seen at Xilon and Cracow
Triennials rooms, I think.

So, people of Baren Planet, come to 'Printland'! Rio is a beautiful city
(despite the country social problems), winter at 25 /30 degrees centigrade,
no rain, wonderful beachs, mountains, the biggest urban forest in the world,
cheap hotels, restaurants and bars, the fantastic Brazilian music (samba,
bossanova...). Non-stop flights from New York, London, Paris, Japan etc
If any of you decide to come,  please, let me know.  I will be your
cicerone...
Horatio, from Rio / Brazil

PS- Unfortunately the complete program of Riogravura, shown on the web site:
http://www.rio.rj.gov.br/riogravura , is only in Portuguese and doesn't show
any photo.

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