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| | Bulgarian Printmakers: Woodcut Print Artists |
 | | The real beginning of Bulgarian woodblock prints is in the middle of 19th century, during the national revival period when the foundations of Bulgarian culture were laid. |
 | | Two formal trends; appear in the graphic works of the Revival periods, which are patriotic and educational in content: a striving to imitate ‘academic’ European drawing, and the continuation of the old Bulgarian “style of painting”; the second is the better and more skillfully manifested in woodcuts. |
 | | In the medieval icon and in Bulgarian mural paintings, but chiefly in the Old Bulgarian miniatures, there are elements, which, as far as plastic idiom and style are concerned, belong to graphic art, rather than to painting. |
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