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In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

  
  DesMoinesRegister.com | Famous Iowans
Mauricio Lasansky, Iowa's foremost printmaker, solidified his reputation with his renowned "Nazi Drawings," which depict the atrocities of war.
In 1985, at age 70, Lasansky could have rested on his laurels when he retired from teaching at the University of Iowa, where he was the longtime head of the printmaking department.
Lasansky was born in 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his Lithuanian-born father, a printer, settled after first briefly immigrating to the United States.
desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/lasansky.html   (432 words)

  
 Mauricio Lasansky at AllExperts
Mauricio Lasansky (born October 12, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is one of the few modern artists who have limited their works almost exclusively to the graphic media.
In 1943, Lasansky was offered the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in which he came to the United States and studied the print collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lasansky has been the recipient of a total of five Guggenheim Fellowships, six honorary Doctorate of Arts degrees and numerous prizes and special honors.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/mauricio_lasansky.htm   (1087 words)

  
 Stepping stones to art  A summer workshop for children opens up the world of poetry and sculpture  By DONNA ...
Lasansky has had her dance studio for 20 years and has been holding similar week-long multidisciplinary workshops for children, a kind of art camp, for the past 13 years.
Lasansky does know what her steps are: They're specific actions, creative expectations that also work internally, so that step by step her students climb that inner staircase to art-making.
Lasansky studied up, relearned her science and led students to kinesthetically experience acid rain and the alteration of matter from solid to liquid to gas.
www.lasanskydance.com /article_MaineTimes.htm   (1681 words)

  
 International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Mauricio Lasansky was born in 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lasansky is one of the few modern artists who have limited their works almost solely to the graphic media.
Lasansky's love for printmaking, along with a Guggenheim Fellowship, awarded to him in 1943, brought him to the United States, where he studied the print collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
www.printdealers.com /artist_template.cfm?id=878   (396 words)

  
 Mauricio Lasansky
Mauricio Lasansky was born October 12, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argnetina, where his father worked as a banknote engraver.
Lasansky has been the subject of over 160 one-man shows, including the Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City (1969), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1971), Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA (1972 and 74), and Third International Biennial Mexico (1980).
Lasansky has received honorary doctorate degrees from Iowa Wesley College (1959), Pacific Lutheran University (1969), Carleton College (1979), and Coe College (1985).
finearts.luther.edu /artists/lasansky_mauricio.html   (611 words)

  
 LasanskyArt.com - The Lasansky Gallery, home of artist and printmaker Mauricio Lasansky
Mauricio Lasansky has been making prints for more than 65 years — first in his native Argentina, then in New York City, and (more than fifty-five years) in Iowa City, Iowa.
Mauricio Lasansky is also known worldwide for The Nazi Drawings, which examine the brutality of Nazi Germany.
Lasansky worked intensively for six years to create the series, which consists of thirty individual pieces and one tryptich.
www.lasanskyart.com   (405 words)

  
 JewishJournal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lasansky signed his name upside down in the last drawing — his self-portrait — "to force viewers to bow in reverence to the victims," the Iowa native told The Journal.
Lasansky’s powerful series was selected as an inaugural exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1967.
Lasansky and Wyrick will participate in a panel discuussion with ABC correspondent Judy Muller after the Oct. 14 screening.
www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=7553   (309 words)

  
 Mauricio Lasansky Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Due to his early contributions in the development of graphic techniques and his dedication to printmaking, Lasansky is considered to be a forerunner in the evolution of the graphic arts as a critical art form and has become recognized as one of the "Fathers of 20th Century American Printmaking."
Lasansky's portraits appear as humanistic ideals when compared to the dehumanized figures that appear in his other prints.
Lasansky has devoted himself to exploring the expressive possibilities of graphic arts.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Lasansky_Mauricio.html   (1032 words)

  
 Iowa's Printmaker -- Friday, Dec. 01, 1961 -- Page 1 -- TIME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lasansky was then in charge of two provincial art schools; Taylor was so impressed with his work that he arranged to have him come to the U.S. on a Guggenheim fellowship.
Lasansky took over the anemic Department of Graphic Arts, became an associate professor at the end of two years, a full professor in 1948.
Lasansky prefers etching and engraving on copperplate to lithography because the discipline is more rigid.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,938829,00.html   (751 words)

  
 Austin Galleries - Artist Bio
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of a banknote engraver, Mauricio Lasansky’s love for the print first brought him to the United States with the aid of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
It was Lasansky’s presence that was responsible for the reputation of the University’s print department acquired as the “printmaking capital of the US” and Lasansky himself as “the nation’s most influential printmaker.” (Time Magazine, 1961) Retiring in 1985, Lasansky’s home and studio remain in Iowa City.
Lasansky’s prints are especially skillfully and complicated because of the great size of the print, as well as the number of colors used, each requiring a separate plate.
www.austingalleries.com /artist_bio.asp?ID=380   (269 words)

  
 Intaglio Prints by Mauricio Lasansky
Mauricio Lasansky's intaglio prints are the result of a complicated multi-step process, yet their impact on the viewer feels spontaneous and simple.
As a young printmaker of prominence in his native Argentina, Lasansky came to the United States in 1943 as a Guggenheim Fellow to undertake an exhaustive study of the print collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lasansky has expanded the boundaries of intaglio printmaking by incorporating a wide variety of techniques in his work, as well as by experimenting again and again with his materials.
www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m603.htm   (384 words)

  
 Iowa Pathways » Art and Artists in Iowa
Mauricio Lasansky helped the University of Iowa's print department become known as the printmaking capital of the US and Lasansky himself as the nation's most influential printmaker by Time magazine in 1961.
Mauricio Lasansky was born in Argentina in 1914.
Lasansky and his students led a renewed movement for the art of printmaking.
www.iptv.org /IowaPathways/myPath.cfm?ounid=ob_000304   (1382 words)

  
 CNM 1999-2000 Concert Information, School of Music, The University of Iowa
Thus, to a certain extent, Mauricio Lasansky's drawings will speak out loud to us on this afternoon -- though confronted by such work, one cannot fail to be reminded of the limits of the sayable.
Theodicy was composed in 1999 as a response to "The Nazi Drawings" by Mauricio Lasansky and to the Holocaust in general.
The idea for a piece of this character was suggested in part by two Lasansky pictures in the UI Museum, the woman in blue with a small dog, and "Woman with a Lute," as well as by the artist's Argentine origins.
www.uiowa.edu /~cnm/34.000409.html   (1393 words)

  
 CJR Fine Arts Forum > Mauricio Lasansky
Jul 27 2006, 12:16 PM As promissed here is one of my favorites - Lasansky prints.If you are interested further feel free to explore his site http://www.lasanskyart.com/art/print_index.shtml
Well, to me Lasansky depicts human experiances and emotions that I can assosiate with.
For instance the cardinal and the pope is a nearly life size etching!; I like how he is very limited with color and uses unconventional combinations like red with orange or diferent hues of blue.
www.art-newsletter.com /forums/lofiversion/index.php?t729.html   (1126 words)

  
 mauricio - Ask.com Web Search
Explores the history and passion behind artist Mauricio Lasansky's powerful graphic series depicting the horrors of Nazi atrocities.
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 CRMA Lasansky - 15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gift of Mauricio L. and Emilia B. Lasansky and the Lasansky Corporation.
Here, Lasansky expresses his emotional reaction to a horrific event.
This drawing, one panel of a triptych whose title translates to “the dirty war”, addresses the covert civil war in Argentina and the resulting human atrocities that continued for decades.
www.crma.org /collection/lasansky/lasa-15.htm   (108 words)

  
 Keith Achepohl
He earned as BA from Knox College in Galesburg, IL, and in 1960 received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa, where he studied with Mauricio Lasansky.
Flora is a large, color intaglio print in the figurative tradition established by Mauricio Lasansky at the University of Iowa.
The print was given to the college by Alan Luloff in 1991, in memory of his wife, Trudy Souden Luloff (LC ’70), deceased, cousin of the artist.
finearts.luther.edu /artists/achepohl.html   (385 words)

  
 ICPL - Permanent Art Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lasansky earned his MFA at the University of Iowa and is now a Professor of Art at Bucknell University.
Commissioned by the Library Board for the grand re-opening of the Library in June 2004, Convergence was created by Artists Walker and Peters of Airworks Studio in Colorado.
The sculptor, a son of Mauricio Lasansky, was a graduate student at the University of Iowa when he made this piece.
www.icpl.org /art   (1483 words)

  
 Mauricio Lasansky, Argentinia born print maker
Master printmaker Mauricio Lasansky was born in Argentina in 1914.
Mauricio Lasansky has had over 250 one-man shows in the United States and 35 countries.
His works can be seen in over 140 museums and public collections in the United States, Argentina, Colombia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and other countries.
www.kavanaughgallery.com /M_Lasansky.html   (140 words)

  
 Main Page
David Driesbach has been an exhibiting artist since 1949 and an educator from 1952 to 1991.
He has studied with Mauricio Lasansky and Stanley William Hayer.
David has exhibited in over 250 one man shows and a very large number of national and international juried and invitational exhibitions and workshops.
www.niu.edu /art/faculty/driesbach/main.html   (105 words)

  
 Cultural Corridor
In this powerful series of 33 large drawings completed in 1966, Lasansky utilized the most basic drawing tools and media: graphite, washes of muted color, and pages from newspapers and books.
Figures associated with executioners, skeletal remnants of battered humanity, and many other metaphors relate abused to abuser.
Mauricio Lasansky: The Nazi Drawings also occurs on:
www.culturalcorridor.org /calendar_details.asp?R=93845   (97 words)

  
 JUNE 22, 2002 - DAY TWO
MAURICIO LASANSKY (American b.1914) "Lady with Derby" etching, signed lower right "M. Lasansky" titled lower left and numbered 3/70.
MAURICIO LASANSKY (American 1914-) "Self Portrait" engraving on colored paper, second edition.
MAURICIO LASANSKY (American b.1914) "Time in Space" A.P. intaglio incorporating engraving, etching, and aquatint.
www.jacksonsauction.com /Jun02_catalog/DayTwo_cat/pages/108.htm   (95 words)

  
 Mauricio Bueno ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
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Mauricio Lasansky, Portrait of an Artist (Self-Portrait), 1961
Mauricio Lasansky - Quetzalcoatl 1973 color etching The Mint Museums American
www.wwar.com /masters/b/bueno-mauricio.html   (85 words)

  
 PROFESSOR EMERITUS LASANSKY'S 'NAZI DRAWINGS' RETURN TO EXHIBITION AT UNIVERSITY OF IOWA MUSEUM OF ART APRIL 2 | ...
"The Nazi Drawings," a powerful and meaningful series of 30 individual pieces and one triptych by University of Iowa Professor Emeritus Mauricio Lasansky, will be on display in the North Gallery of the UI Museum of Art (UIMA) April 2-July 30.
Long considered Lasansky's masterwork, "The Nazi Drawings" were last shown at the UIMA in 1997.
To create them he used only basic drawing tools and media: lead pencil, water- and turpentine-based washes, and collage on common commercial paper.
www.allbusiness.com /government/3574089-1.html   (446 words)

  
 Mauricio Lasansky (1914 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Mauricio Lasansky.
Artists included are Antonio Frasconi, Gustave Baumann, Mauricio Lasansky, Franceso Clemente, Helen Hyde, A. Dow, and Chuck Close.
The Jane Haslem Gallery is located at 2025 Hillyer Place NW in Washington DC, USA.
www.wwar.com /masters/l/lasansky-mauricio.html   (151 words)

  
 Search Results for mauricio lasansky lasansky - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mauricio Lasansky: A retrospective exhibition of his prints and drawings.
Mauricio Lasansky : 43 prints, 1937-1972: [exhibition] Blanden Art Gallery, Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 10-July 29, 1973 by Mauricio Lasansky
Mauricio Lasansky: A retrospective exhibition by Mauricio Lasansky
www.directtextbook.com /editions/mauricio-lasansky-lasansky   (457 words)

  
 JUNE 22, 2002 - DAY TWO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
JOAN MIRO (Spanish 1893-1983) "Nuit et Jour" 1964 color lithograph, signed in pencil lower right and numbered lower left "13/15".
MAURICIO LASANSKY (American 1914-) "Near East" 1948 color intaglio, signed lower right and titled and numbered 7/35 lower left.
MAURICIO LASANSKY (American 1914-) "Pieta" 1948 color intaglio, signed lower right and titled and numbered 18/35 lower left.
www.jacksonsauction.com /Jun02_catalog/DayTwo_cat/pages/106.htm   (57 words)

  
 Mauricio Lasansky Online
Mauricio Lasansky at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Biography available, but no works viewable online
Search AllPosters for reproductions of works by Mauricio Lasansky
All images and text on this Mauricio Lasansky page are copyright 1999-2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/lasansky_mauricio.html   (148 words)

  
 THE NAZI DRAWINGS by Artist Mauricio Lasansky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Nazi Drawings website provides information about Artist Mauricio Lasansky's powerful graphic series depicting the victims and aftermath of Nazi Atrocities.
An Award-Winning Documentary by Lane Wyrick explores the history and passion behind Lasansky's powerful series, The Nazi Drawings.
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www.nazidrawings.com   (62 words)

  
 Iowa - art dealers and museums - Directory Art in America - Find Articles
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 410 Third Ave SE 52401 (319) 366-7503, fax (319) 366-4111 Tue-Sat 10-4, Thu 10-7, Sun 12-4 Dir: Donald B. Doe 20th-century modern and regional paintings; Grant Woods, Marvin Cone, Malvina Hoffman, and Mauricio Lasansky Collections; 19th- to 20th-century sculpture, prints, paintings, photography, ancient Roman portrait busts.
Lasansky Corporation Gallery 216 Washington St 52240 (319) 337-9336 Mon 1-5 or by appt Dir: Phillip Lasansky Intaglio prints and drawings, sculpture, consultant.
G/D/P/C Artists exhibited: Leonardo Lasansky, Mauricio Lasansky, Tomas Lasansky, William Lasansky 2371.
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