Horse and Rider: The Photogravures of Cynthia Brants

• Main Author: Blackwood, Sara Jane
• Other Authors: Mark Thistlethwaite
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: Texas Christian University 2007
• Subjects: College of Fine Arts
• Online Access: http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-05022007-080753/

This thesis project is formatted as though it were an exhibition catalog of fourteen horse and rider photogravures from the personal collection of artist, Cynthia Brants. Brants (1924-2006) was a prolific painter, sculptor and printmaker who exhibited with a group of local artists known as the Fort Worth Circle. An avid rider since her youth, the equestrian subject was particularly personal to the artist and frequented many of her prints. As she searched for a style and medium, Brants works varied from rudimentary linear works, to abstraction, and finally resulted in a unique combination of photogravure and Japanese paper folding, known as origami. By bringing the photogravure technique to level of fine art and incorporating the art of Japanese paper folding into the process, Brants produced a style that is innovative and sculptural, while simultaneously calling attention to a printing process that had fallen to the wayside.