About The Artist:
Jean Pougny (aka Ivan Puni)
Ivan Puni or Puny (Jean Pougny, Russian: Иван Пуни; 1894 or 1892 – 1956) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist). Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala (then Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, now Repino in Russia) to a family of Italian origins. He is the grandson of an eminent Italian composer of ballet music, Cesare Pugni. Puni received his formal training in Paris in 1910-11 at the Académie...
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About The Medium:
Linocut
A printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for a relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised (uncarved) areas representing a reversal (mirror image) of the parts to show printed.