About The Artist:
Neil Korpi
Korpi was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 1942. He graduated from public schools and after serving in the Army, with a tour in Vietnam, attended the University of Minnesota. In 1976, he received a B.A. cum laude in Philosophy and History with a minor concentration in the Arts. He continued at the University as a teaching Fellow for another year. He interrupted this academic career to become an apprentice at the Corcoran Museum's experimental...
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About The Medium:
Mezzotint
A printmaking process of the intaglio family, technically a drypoint method. It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.