About The Artist:
Tomoe Yokoi
Born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, Yokoi began art studies at Bunka-Gakuin, a Tokyo College of art, where traditional techniques and subject matter -- the realistic everyday images of fruits, musical instruments, and flowers, which were to become her principal subjects -- were stressed. Several years after her graduation in 1964, Yokoi moved to Paris to study intaglio printmaking with S. W. Hayter at his famous workshop, Atelier 17. By the time...
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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.