How to Use woodcut in a Sentence

woodcut

noun
  • Vallotton made woodcuts and prints in part to survive as a young artist.
    — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Much of his work are woodcuts, where ink and image merge into alchemy.
    — Dianne Solis, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Woodblock prints are a unique type of canvas that is made to look like an old-fashioned woodcut.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2022
  • On the front is a woodcut print of an animal in a hat, pulling a steaming dish out of a brick oven.
    — Frances Leech, Longreads, 3 May 2018
  • This woodcut was later created based on accounts from the time.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Marinas, boats, stacks of crab pots, woodcuts of blue crabs on mailboxes and front porches.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 7 May 2018
  • At the same time, the woodcuts helped to fix the idea of what a witch looked like in the popular imagination.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 30 Oct. 2017
  • They were produced as an engraving or woodcut and printed on paper.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 15 Dec. 2021
  • As a result, her woodcuts (like all her prints) enlarge the boundaries of the discipline.
    — Karen Wilkin, WSJ, 22 July 2017
  • Curator Pontoni was drawn to his woodcuts and intaglio prints.
    — cleveland.com, 10 May 2018
  • Detailed Day of the Dead woodcut stylings wrap the entire bottle in a full-bottle wrap that shrouds the bottle.
    — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Sarah Horowitz’s solo show of woodcut prints and ink drawings take bare branches, pine boughs and blue dill seed heads as their subject in this solo show.
    — Briana Miller, oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Custom woodcuts or engravings were just too expensive to do on a regular basis.
    — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2016
  • 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
  • Tetsuya Noda’s woodcut-screenprint seems to depict a watermelon, but there is room for doubt.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 29 July 2019
  • The 40 artworks in the show are lithographs, etchings, drypoints, aquatints and woodcuts.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • That sparked his obsession with prints, of which there are several types, including lithographs, woodcuts and aquatints.
    — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Her scratchy black and white lines look like German expressionist woodcuts, something from Otto Dix.
    — Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Certainly no one in Paris has Van Noten’s kind of prints, which in some cases suggested a ’30s woodcut.
    — Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Or a Käthe Kollwitz woodcut of women locked in an embrace — a commentary on the mental toll of bereavement, trauma and war.
    — Erin Blakemore, Washington Post, 2 July 2017
  • Although Eve Stockton’s pictures are unusually large for woodcut prints, their scale suits her subjects, which include sea, sky and sun.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Two signatures—one pressed onto the painting with a woodcut stamp, the other scrawled by hand with a purple pencil—suggested the print might be a Dalí original.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2020
  • Semicircles feature prominently in Eve Stockton’s large woodcuts in the Long View show.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • There are displays of a book of devotions, a fan handle like the one Isotta holds, woodcuts of the time illustrating the patterns on a sitter’s collar, and so on.
    — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • Two other woodcuts, one German and the other Italian, demonstrate the technique’s potential range of emotive force.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 5 July 2018
  • The swirling imagery suggests water, which Bose invokes with woodcuts of shad and one print that depicts rivers much closer to Carroll Square than to the Ganges.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Though the heart of her work — graphite and charcoal drawings, mezzotint and woodcut prints, paintings — is often described as dark, it has always been backlighted, in a sense, by California sun.
    — Randy Kennedy, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Somewhere in most of Rosemary Feit Covey’s recent artworks are woodcut prints, detailed renderings of birds, bones and butterfly wings.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Using dovetails and other old-fashioned woodcuts, Sebastian Errazuriz makes furniture that seems fresh, new, and even a bit on this side of living and breathing.
    — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2015
  • To help viewers understand what is going on, the Art Institute includes video demonstrations on the walls amid the artwork, quick how-tos on ceramics, woodcuts and more.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017

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