Despite ill health and struggles with drugs, he produced many important paintings and major portrait woodcuts. |
When only woodcuts, etchings and engravings could be printed, the images would get worse and worse over time as the blocks or plates wore down. |
From this time he began abstract work, though he continued to do woodcuts and linocuts of an Expressionist character. |
Wood engraving allows to make finer lines than woodcuts and more impressions from the same block. |
Her elegantly refined woodcuts benefit from the limitations of the medium, which require simplification and succinctness. |
An easy way to see why I like his so much is is read one of his books or look at some of his prints, woodcuts and paintings. |