Fourteen fantastic prints

Cláudio Caropreso’s striking, satirical, sometimes sad prints are made using a ‘lost matrix’ technique. In it, the artist carves part of the design from the block (‘matrix’) and prints one colour, then carves again and prints another colour, and so on until there’s nothing left to cut away, as in this print, Parede (R$400).

Find Cláudio Caropreso prints for sale at Gravura Brasileira.

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Cláudio Mubarac’s confident blend of old and new print techniques marries haunting photographic prints with contrasting images in lithography and metal-cut. This image, Untitled (R$2,000), was made using metal-cut. Mubarac is a professor at the University of São Paulo’s ECA school of arts and communications, and carries out detailed research into print history and method.

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One of a series of on-the-road landscapes, glimpsed through lonesome, rain-washed windscreens, Ana Calzavara’s Porto Seguro (R$5,500) was made using both woodcut and monotype techniques. Calzavara created the woodcut block, then painted directly onto it before printing to achieve a one-off overlaid image.

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Samuel Casal’s Bocão (‘Big mouth’, R$200) is one of a series of iconic animal prints made in his trademark bold style, in linoleum-cut. Casal’s gripping images are clawed from woodcut blocks or laminates of linoleum, as with this image. The artist also makes prints using lithography and serigraphy (screen-printing).

Find Samuel Casal's prints for sale at Choque Cultural.

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The serigraph (screenprint) Vox Clamantis in Deserto (left, R$800), by Stephan Doitschinoff, is emblematic of the artist's headily symbolic artistic visions, featuring Doitschinoff’s own brand of religious mysticism.

O Marido Marinheiro da Sereia Sarada (right, R$1,000) by the artist Speto is a woodcut print inspired by the tradition of cordel literature – a genre of popular story-telling featuring long, epic poems whose covers are often created using woodcut prints.

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Francisco Maringelli’s contemporary urban woodcuts, crammed with life and action, capture all the light and shade of life in the big bad city. Untitled (R$1,200).

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An untitled lithograph by Marcelo Grassmann (R$700). Grassmann’s strange and wonderful visions are executed in lithograph, and the artist is still producing wholly compelling work at almost 90 years of age. He recently produced a book of seven new prints, making them at Graphias gallery, where the ten copies are on sale at R$4,000 each.

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Sheila Goloborotko’s strong, shapely, delicate ‘found object’ series depicts bits of metal rendered, in turn, in tactile-looking metal-cut prints, like this untitled image (R$700)

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O Monstro do Sertão (‘The backlands monster’, R$180), by the renowned cordel artist, J. Borges.

Find J. Borges prints for sale at Galeria de Gravura (gravura.art.br).

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Soberba (R$1,500), a screenprint by the prolific artist, Carybé (Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó). Originally from Argentina, Carybé made his home in Brazil, specifically in Salvador, in the state of Bahia, where he immersed himself in the rich culture he found there. He was a friend of the author Jorge Amado, and illustrated many of the great writer's works.

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Rosana Paulino’s No País das Maravilhas ('In Wonderland', R$3,500), created in monotype. Find Rosana Paulino's prints for sale at Galeria Virgílio (galeriavirgilio.com.br).

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Desapropriação 3, by André Komatsu (R$3,500). This image is one of a series of silkscreen prints Komatsu produced for the Spanish publisher, Polígrafa, on sale at Galeria Vermelho.

A print by the artist Emanoel Araújo, part of the permanent collection at Estação Pinacoteca. As well as delicate prints like these, Araújo also makes works on a huge scale, including carbon steel sculptures. He was also the director of the Pinacoteca do Estado art museum for ten 10 years, from 1992-2002.

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Casa do Mangue, by the Lithuanian-born artist Lasar Segall (1891-1957). This woodcut print is part of the collection at the Museu Lasar Segall.

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