Shakespeare did not exactly confine himself to fine etchings of individual experience, after all.
Manet made a few fine etchings, but his best and most personal works are lithographs, in which his swift but astonishingly precise drawing found its proper medium.
Short stories too showed great disparities, from the fine etchings of small, ever-recurring sins in Margaret Atwood's Moral Disorder to the odd-angled humour of Vincent Lam's fantastical Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures to Carol Windley's precise and disciplined Home Schooling, in which home truths, both bitter and sweet, were learned by teachers and students alike.
This required a very fine etching technique.
This method involves covering a 22-karat gold-rimmed plate or cup with acid-resistant transfer design paper and dipping it into an acid bath, which bites a design into the gold and leaves the impression of fine etching.
Mostly, the celebratory exhibitions are in Europe, especially the Netherlands, but the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has added its own tribute with a fine etching show, "Grand Gestures: Celebrating Rembrandt" that is worth the drive from Connecticut.
Mr Quignard's poetic prose is strangely sexual: each chapter is like a fine etching which bears in negative the mysterious pairing of desire and love, his passion for Nanni, his renunciation, and in the background, the troubled 17th-century Europe, devastated by civil wars.Eric Laurrent offers comic relief with "Dehors" (Outside), a parody vaudeville staging of the vicissitudes of the young.
Some lines look as fine as etchings.But while the show has enjoyable breadth, it is lacking in depth.
This privately owned museum, just off the Ku'damm, includes hundreds of her finest drawings, etchings and sculptures.
Included here are many kinds of copies, and their originals, from a fine Rembrandt etching, a copy, and copy of the copy, to a pair of near identical paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Charles Fairfax Murray.
Drawing on loans from museums and private collections, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the National Gallery in London, the exhibition, through Jan . 20 is complemented by significant works on paper, including five of Rembrandt's finest portrait etchings of men in domestic settings and about 70 of the period's outstanding objects for the home, including silver and furniture.
