Re: SIZE Re: Photogravure was: Re: SPE and alt update!!!!!!

[Diana Bloomfield <dhbloomfield@bellsouth.net>]

Hey Chris..

I don't know if the mezzotint guy is the same or not; since he's in  
the South, we may be talking about the same person.  Donald Furst?   
He's head of the art dept at UNC-Wilmington.  I've seen his work for  
a long time, and I've never seen anything of his larger than about  
4x5 or possibly as big as 5x7??  Not sure.  The most recent ones I  
saw were very small-- all just incredible.  I always find his subject  
matter intriguing, too-- very compelling.  I just love them.  His  
work has always inspired me to want to learn how to do that, but I'm  
pretty sure that will have to wait for another life-time.

Okay-- I just found a link that has some of his work:  http:// 
www.creativewilmington.com/member_detail.php?id=102%0D

Diana
On Apr 4, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:

> Good morning all!
>
> Diana, I can understand why mezzotints are small.  Rocking a  
> plate--4x5 was
> plenty big.  There is a guy, and I forget his name, who rocked  
> these HUGE
> plates down south when I was at Clemson (he gave a presentation)  
> and again,
> I was blown away by his virtuoso.  But mezzotints are so gorgeous and
> velvety small.  Wow.  I wonder if we are talking about the same  
> guy...he's a
> mezzotint king IMHO.
>
> So I guess I have to say size is verrrry seductive but the  
> proverbial proof
> is in the performance--the image itself.
> Chris
>
> >