I keep discovering new printmakers I like, but I already have so many I love. I’ve decided I will not do more than one day of the same artist in a week, but I’m not hesitating to come back to some of my favorite artists every week. I’ve shown some of Bosman’s color prints before (1, 2, 3)–he tends to utilize a very limited palette of colors within one print, which, like most constraints on an artistic form, actually opens up interesting possibilities. This gives his pictures a pretty distinctive feel, and I feel it’s not too hard to identify things by him just by looking.
Today’s print is called The Edge; the bridge does come to an abrupt stop, creating an edge, but what’s the metaphor? Is it implying the edge of the city? the edge of “civilized society”?
The Edge (woodcut, 1992)
