Jacques Hnizdovsky

Jacques Hnizdovsky

Jacques Hnizdovky (1915–1985) was a Ukrainian-American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator and sculptor.

Quotes

• subject creates style; nature suggests style.
  • Tahir, Abe M. Jr (1987). Jacques Hnizdovsky Woodcuts and Etchings. Pelican Publishing Co. ISBN 0-88289-487-0. p.viii
• I regarded myself as an explorer, and the explorer has no use for smoothly paved roads. He needs the rough terrain of the wilderness.
  • Tahir, Abe M. Jr (1987). Jacques Hnizdovsky Woodcuts and Etchings. Pelican Publishing Co. ISBN 0-88289-487-0. p.6
• Although I made radical attempts to break away from my former habits in printmaking, I was still not completely liberated from my first and strongest influence. Despite the highly simplified and almost abstractly patternlike approach of my new experiments, I was still a slave to the simple frame. My prints still had a border even if I constantly asked why they should. It is an irony and a cause for the artist to be humble that he needs so much time and so much effort, as I needed, to liberate himself from the tiny frame. Such is the power of habit.
  • Tahir, Abe M. Jr (1987). Jacques Hnizdovsky Woodcuts and Etchings. Pelican Publishing Co. ISBN 0-88289-487-0. p.7

Quotes about person/work

• The woodcuts of Jacques Hnizdovsky represent some of the freshest and most original printmaking in American graphic arts of the past thirty years
  • Peter A. Wick in the foreword to Tahir, Abe M. Jr (1987). Jacques Hnizdovsky Woodcuts and Etchings. Pelican Publishing Co. ISBN 0-88289-487-0. p.vii