“Antonio Frasconi has always believed that art should come from a place deep within one’s self.” (North Dakota Museum of Art website)
(c) Antonio Frasconi
One of my favorite woodcut artists is Antonio Frasconi, whose work I learned about just within the last couple years. This morning as I was wandering about in my usual morning routine, a book I have about his work published by the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, jumped out at me and I sat down and looked through it for the thousandth time. I decided to look him up online to see if any other works that I had not seen before would show up in an image search (since the internet is a constantly shifting landscape), and I was sad to read a New York Times article, just published yesterday, that he had died on Jan. 8. Read it here: Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93
(c) Antonio Frasconi
“”The tide is coming in,” he said, before turning back. “And it is bringing all kinds of things. You just have to look and something will show up.”
Read more (from a 2011 article on his life and work): http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/entertainment/article/Norwalk-artist-Antonio-Frasconi-has-had-970850.php#ixzz2IigoSlKO