Minneapolis Institute of Art
La Crucifixion
Émile Bernard
- Date
- c. 1890–93 (published 1894)
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Although produced in the spirit of a medieval woodcut, Émile Bernard's print is deceptively original. He achieved a primitive look by carving the coarse, unruly side-grain of a wood plank rather than the smoother end-grain, unheard of for a 19th-century artist. The narrow format borrows from Japanese hashira-e prints, which hung on pillars. And his angular, elongated Christ seems to prefigure German Expressionism. Using ropes on the cross was also novel; artists had switched to nails in the Middle Ages because they produced more blood. France, Europe
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