| Show FAME OF FRENCH ARTISTS it I 1 In creed by the production Ite of their the proportion of artists in france of wide fame whose work is frequently cen in print is undoubtedly greater than in any other country and one of many good reasons for this is certainly the exceptional skill and experience of the french in their use of reproductive processes and especially those which not only translate the form of the inal but the color as well says scribners magazine these color reproductions printed from metal relief plates and not from lithographic stones the method usually resorted to by the rest of the world are unique the secret of securing with but few impressions the marvelous combinations of color the effects of washes tones and lines combined with a verve and character quite indescribable is one of which only the french printer artist is complete master just across the border the german printer has developed lithography with something of the same enthusiasm thusia sm which the frenchman has devoted to the relief alafe each practically making few excursions into the others methods of accomplishing the same thing A still further reason for this great superiority is the innate artistic sense of the french printer or more erly the pressman in other countries where engraver and printer are looked upon by the illustrator as his natural enemies into whose hands a drawing is given grudgingly the statement which is not infrequently made by the french artist that the reproduction or translation of the original into printed form is as effective in its way as the drawing itself calculated to excite derision |
