How to Use linocut in a Sentence

linocut

noun
  • Arnera had been using the linocut process to produce posters.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • My first attempt at linocut was a set of spot drawings for this magazine.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • In the small linocut, three fishermen are poised before a rushing stream, set against a deep yellow ground giving way to creamy whites.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The prints are listed primarily as serigraph, also known as silk-screen, or relief, which includes woodcut and linocut.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the past, Fabula has done printmaking including etchings and linocuts.
    — Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2024
  • Etchings, screen prints, woodblocks, collagraphs, lithographs and linocuts.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Many fine films were deemed too extreme for anyone under eighteen, including several that earned a linocut from Strausfeld.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • There are simple linocuts, as well as lithographs created in collaboration with a master printer.
    — Barbara Schreiber, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • She is known for her use of relief prints, created using the process of the linocut and inspired by meteoric folklore as well as alchemical symbolism.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2020
  • Her 1963 linocut depicts Ivan Svitlychny, who like herself was a dissident artist.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2022
  • This joint biography of the modernist linocut artists Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power is a riveting tale of art and love between the wars.
    — The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The Getty hosts its second annual event with Mesoamerican food, Mexica linocut stamping and sage workshops.
    — Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Although Picasso had little formal training, his curiosity drove him to explore etchings, lithographs, aquatints and linocuts.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Picasso really reinvented artistic language and synthesized Modernism, an inventiveness the artist carried into making linocut prints.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Throughout the 1970s, Baselitz produced numerous upside-down landscapes and portraits, delving into fingerpainting around the middle of the decade and branching out into linocuts a few years later.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 1 May 2026
  • That allows lighting designer Jon Clark and video designer Luke Halls to splash sharply suggestive light and ravishing, linocut-style imagery (inspired by the novel’s original illustrations) across it.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Her most famous individual image, 1952’s Sharecropper linocut, possesses an insight only possible from up-close observation.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025

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