In his late seventies, Picasso worked with the printer Arnera on a transformed method of working with a single linocut block, known as the reduction method. The first stage involved printing a flat tone from the uncarved surface of the lino. The block was then progressively cut, the lightest colours first and the whole edition printed for that particular colour, before re-cutting the surface for the subsequent colours. Picasso continued to use the medium until 1968, when he returned to etching. |