noun
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a design cut in relief on linoleum mounted on a wooden block
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a print made from such a design
Etymology
Origin of linocut
First recorded in 1905–10; lino(leum) + cut
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Artist Mark Hearld, who has taken part, said: "I chose his linocut Ives Farm, but have made my response in collage because nobody does linocuts better than Edward Bawden."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
Dillyn Adamo discovered that adapting her favorite medium of linocut printmaking to pieces of the forest made her feel closer to nature.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
Production designer Maria Djurkovic looked at numerous references to get the aesthetic tone right, drawing on Edward Bawden’s 1958 linocut of Brighton Pier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
Fingerprints represent individuality, and Zimbabwe-born artist Joseph Muzondo turns them into symbolic portraits in his handsome linocut prints, each of which incorporates a face into single-color whorls framed by white-on-white 3D patterns.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
Matisse created white-on-black linocut prints for the book, among which is a simple, rather benign bull’s head rendered in white lines on a black rectangle.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2015
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