The Zimmerly wood cut show

Yesterday i went to see the new show of woodcut prints at the Zimmerly museum. I liked looking at the range of woodcuts uses in making an image. The applications of the medium have a very wide range, depending on the artist's hand, which make it an excellent medium for any style of working. This has to do with woods physical properties. It is very hard and has a grain so very precise and hard edged images can be made, like Donald Judd's minimal abstractions. Woods hardness and grain can also produce very expressive gestures if the artist decides to fight its physical properties. This was a trademark of the German expressionists.