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Comparative techniques:
5 woodcuts/ 5 lithographs

Four of the 5 panels above are life size details from woodcut prints that appear on other pages of this album. Select any panel to see the full size print from which this detail is taken. The details provide close ups for purposes of comparison between the technique of woodcut and lithograph and the ways in which different artists employ these mediums.

panels, left to right:
Leopoldo Méndez, detail from Torches, an image from Rio Escondido

F. Castro Pacheco, detail from The Seridán family starts the fight in Puebla, 18 October 1910, from Engravings of the Mexican Revolution, 1947.

Alberto Beltrán, detail from The agrarian problem in Latin America, from the CTAL portfolio, 1948.

G. de la Paz Pérez detail (full image not shown)

Everardo Ramírez, detail from The Land, 1943.