How to Use linocut in a Sentence

linocut

noun
  • My first attempt at linocut was a set of spot drawings for this magazine.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This joint biography of the modernist linocut artists Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power is a riveting tale of art and love between the wars.
    The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The prints are listed primarily as serigraph, also known as silk-screen, or relief, which includes woodcut and linocut.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • These include 406 Pablo Picasso linocut prints donated by Ms. Remai, once the biggest set in private hands.
    Kelly Crow, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Although there are works from well-known Canadians like the visual artist Althea Thauberger, the main attraction may be the Picasso gallery where there will be more than 400 of his linocuts and nearly two dozen of his ceramic pieces.
    Shivani Vora, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2017
  • She is known for her use of relief prints, created using the process of the linocut and inspired by meteoric folklore as well as alchemical symbolism.
    New York Times, 8 July 2020
  • Her 1963 linocut depicts Ivan Svitlychny, who like herself was a dissident artist.
    Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Etchings, screen prints, woodblocks, collagraphs, lithographs and linocuts.
    Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • That allows lighting designer Jon Clark and video designer Luke Halls to splash sharply suggestive light and ravishing, linocut-style imagery (inspired by the novel’s original illustrations) across it.
    David Benedict, Variety, 8 Dec. 2021

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