Friday, July 3, 2026

Cuts

Martin Mazorra
Indivisible
2017
linocut
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art


Anonymous Italian Printmaker
Memento Mori
ca. 1740
chiaroscuro woodcut (funerary placard)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Alison Saar
Hepcat
2019
linocut
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Antonio Fantuzzi (Antonio da Trento) after Parmigianino
Martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul
ca. 1545
chiaroscuro woodcut
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Georg Baselitz
Nude with Three Arms
1977
hand-colored linocut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Raoul Dufy
Apollo
1911
woodcut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
Hay Camp, New South Wales
(for prisoners-of-war)
1941
woodcut
British Museum

Sophie Tauber-Arp
Untitled
1941
linocut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jan Swart van Groningen
Suleyman the Great
1526
hand-colored woodcut
British Museum

Anselm Kiefer
Grane
ca. 1980-90
hand-colored woodcut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Monogrammist 4+ (German printmaker)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
1565
woodcut
British Museum

Alexey Brodovitch
Martini (Turin)
1926
linocut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Alex Katz
Forest
2009
woodcut and linocut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Christian Rohlfs
Prisoner
1918
woodcut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Pablo Picasso
Nature Morte à la Bouteille
1962
linocut
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Lyubov Popova
Untitled
ca. 1917-19
hand-colored linocut
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Max Bill
Untitled
1941
color woodblock print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Besides its unreasonableness, there is an even more serious objection to Blake's mysticism – and indeed to all mysticism: its lack of humanity.  The mystic's creed – even when arrayed in the wondrous and ecstatic beauty of Blake's verse – comes upon the ordinary man, in the rigidity of its uncompromising elevation, with a shock which is terrible, and almost cruel.  The sacrifices which it demands are too vast, in spite of the divinity of what it has to offer. What shall it profit a man, one is tempted to exclaim, if he gain his own soul, and lose the whole world?  The mystic ideal is the highest of all; but it has no breadth.

– Lytton Strachey on William Blake (1906)