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Originally Posted by dubman

haha, hogarth.

i just had to take a final on british art from 1700-1860. if art history wasnt my minor i would have been toast since it was a very... arduous class.
but i now i can talk yer ears off about it.

Good stuff! Before i became a full-fledged geologist, i did a double major in art and geology (just to confuse my breain and avoid making up my mind). Once took a class called History of Graphic Arts, which spend a lonnng time on Hogarth.

Engravers, etchers, printers...i have a lot of respect for these guys, because of the tremendous effort of the process of creating. the natural talent's one thing, to make a lovely picture, but to execute each line into wood, metal, whatever, and then have it turn out as a print is tremendously difficult. Many of my etchings were smudge-tastic!

p.s. Karl et al., are you fans of M.C. Escher? His engravings will do your head in! I went to the Escher museum while in Den Haag, Holland...seeing the clasics up close was amazing.