About The Artist:
Alberto Magnelli
Italian Futurist painter. He studied Cubism in Paris in 1913 - 14 but later turned to abstraction, influenced by Pittura Metafisica. From 1933 he lived in Paris, painting abstracts and became a member of Abstraction-Creation. After the war he became prominent in the production of structured abstract painting with outlined geometrical forms, when Art informel was prevalent. Major exhibitions: 1950 Venice Biennale, 1963 Zurich and Paris in 1968....
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About The Medium:
Linocut
A printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed.