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Comparative techniques:
5 woodcuts/ 5 lithographs

Each of the 5 panels above shows life size details from lithographic prints that appear on other pages of this album. Select any panel to see the full size print from which this detail is taken. The details provide close ups for purposes of comparison between the technique of woodcut and lithograph and the ways in which different artists employ these mediums.

panels, left to right:
Isidoro Ocampo, detail from The knife sharpener, 1947.

Antonio Pujol, detail from Memory of Spain, 1938.

Angel Bracho, detail from Rite of the Huichol Region: Warming the drum, 1939.

Pablo O'Higgins, detail from Portrait, 1948.

Alfredo Zalce detail from Weaver of becal hats, 1945.