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carving a mirror image into rubbery floor tile so it can lie to you in ink
means A relief print made by cutting a design into a sheet of linoleum, inking the raised surface, and pressing it onto paper or fabric.
from A straightforward compound of "linoleum" + "cut." Linoleum itself comes from the Latin linum (flax) and oleum (oil) — it was originally a flooring material made from solidified linseed oil. Early 20th-century artists discovered that this soft, even-textured stuff carved far more easily than woodblocks, and the technique borrowed its name from the woodcut it imitated, swapping the wood for the floor.
- reversed art
- prints flip the image left to right
- flooring origin
- invented as cheap wall and floor covering
- picasso fan
- he reduced whole prints from one block
- one-way cuts
- removed material can never return
- warm it up
- heating the lino softens it for carving
helen frankenthaler prints — american abstract expressionist pioneered color woodcut techniques in the 1950s-60s, influencing modern printmaking
japanese ukiyo-e prints — woodblock prints from 17th-19th century edo japan by artists like hokusai and hiroshige, mass-produced for popular audiences