Monumental Collaborative Puzzle Prints are huge woodcuts created and instigated by printmaking artist Maria Arango Diener. City of the World 2012 is the third of such projects and probably not the last. Project SUMMARY Generally speaking, a puzzle print is any print in which the block is sawed into pieces, each of which is carved and sometimes inked separately. The "puzzle" is then assembled at press and printed as a single image.
A Collaborative-Puzzle-Print is a special kind of puzzle print whereby a humongous block or three are painstakingly sawed into many many many funny shaped...
Monumental Collaborative Puzzle Prints are huge woodcuts created and instigated by printmaking artist Maria Arango Diener. City of the World 2012 is t...
The book Growing the Fantastic Garden 2013 explains the process and depicts images of making a collaborative woodcut print by 92 international artists.
The resulting four-panel print measures 60 x 44 inches and encompasses a large garden image composed of 92 puzzle-like pieces, each unique as the artist who design it.
Briefly, a Monumental Puzzle Print is a large design composed of "puzzle pieces," each of which is designed and carved as a relief or woodcut by a unique artist under a common theme.
Woodcut prints are made by carving a block of wood in...
The book Growing the Fantastic Garden 2013 explains the process and depicts images of making a collaborative woodcut print by 92 interna...
