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Gordon Mortensen

Gordon Mortensen (Born 1938) is active/lives in California.  Gordon Mortensen is known for Woodcut-landscape.

GORDON MORTENSEN

"Art," declares Gordon Mortensen, "is my addiction, my drug, my life.  I am compelled to do it."  Indeed he is, devoting between eight and twelve hours a day, seven days a week, to his intricate reduction woodcuts -- woodcuts that are so skillfully done, most people think they are watercolors on Japanese rice papers.

Although Mortensen has become famous for his woodcuts depicting landscapes, when he began studying art it was with the intent of becoming a portrait painter. In fact, he financed three years of graduate school at the University of Minnesota by doing portrait commissions.  Mortensen discovered, however, that the human figure did not allow him the creative freedom he needed.

"As a portrait painter," he explains, "I was all-interested in the object that was sitting there and neglected the rest of the space -- the negative or background space."  As a result, Mortensen turned to landscapes as his subject and woodcutti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4441 characters.]  Artist bio

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