Monotypes - Mitchell Friedman Art

The black and white works in this portfolio are monotypes. A monotype is the transfer of a painting to paper. Making a monotype is a bit like a performance; once started you can not stop until the work is completed, or else all is lost. The spontaneity, intensity, and a certain lack of control all add to the energy of the image making.

– Mitchell Friedman

Mad Cows - 34" x 48"

Three Crosses - 43" x 31"

The Bells - 43" x 31"

"In Friedman's monotypes, the muscular quality of the rendering - swaths of ink are dragged away to create broad painterly white outlines-gives the images a primeval forcefulness and truth."

–The Los Angeles Times

Christmas - 43" x 31"

The Path Between - 43" x 31"

The Crooked Fence - 43" x 31"

Pastoral - 43" x 31"

The Garden Gate - 48" x 34"

“Mr. Friedman carefully plots broad areas of white that serve as patches of sheer luminosity, and in the “Garden Gate” the structure resembles a church, and a shadow of a cross is cast on the ground.”

–The New York Times

Saw - 31" x 43"

The Three Wishes - 31" x 43"

Lighthouse -43" x 31"

“Mr. Friedman has mastered a black and white idiom.”

–The New York Times

Orchard - 31" x 43"

The Pale Horse - 31" x 43"

Seer - 31" x 43"

Howl - 31" x 43"

Reunion - 31" x 43"

“The black and white monotypes amount to the studies of the rhythmic nature of the shifting line within objective imagery. The emphasis on line transmutes features of the landscapes into symbols - such as windmills transmuted into becoming crosses and a shadow of a horse that turns into a demon with extending tentacles that contain multiple levels of interpretation . . .”

–The Stamford Advocate

Sway - 43" x 31"

Storyboard - 31" x 104"

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