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NOTE: As with the linoleum block [Nude 1947], this print seems to be from a period of experimentation. Its method is different from the majority of elimination linocuts from the late 1940s. As Cox writes in the artistic chronology in STUDIO BOOK: 1946. On resuming block-printing [after a 6 year hiatus during WWII] I was ready for further experiment ... [explanation of attempts to print from natural objects] ... The drawback seemed to be that the blacks and whites should be capable of reversal, and I set out to remedy what was to prove a considerable problem. Siren could be such an attempt; unlike an elimination linocut, where the lightest colour is printed first, with darker and darker colours printed in layers on top, this print has a dark, matte monoprinted background, with lighter coloured, shiny ink on top, which leaves darker areas exposed, in effect giving the reverse of dark and light that Cox was attempting to achieve. |
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