When I make a print, I challenge myself to use as few colours as possible to suggest loads of colours. This always fails, and I invariably end up printing more colours than I envisaged.
But when I see the work of the German born American Gustave Baumann, I think: why bother?
More is definitely more!
The colour woodcuts by Baumann (1881-1971) are extremely beautiful, and extremely colourful.
And he is right, a print is finished when it is perfect.
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