Dussau, born in 1947, knows how to masterly use etching and all its possibilities. His visual language allows lines, shapes and signs blossom, creating space for phantasies, for new syntheses.

A full retrospective with works of Georges Dussau in Musée Denon in Chalon-sur-Saône caused in 1986 sensation in professional circles. His paintings were presented in individual exhibitions in Paris, Chicago, Köln, Zürich, Amsterdam and Montreal, and also at most important art fairs in Basel, New York, London and Düsseldorf.

Designation for the painting and sculpture detached from the representational portrayal, which spread from around 1910 in ever new style variations across the whole western and parts of the eastern world. Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered to be the founder of abstract art. Among other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.

The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.

Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.

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Heliogravure
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Copperplate engraving
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Lithography
Serigraphy (Silk-screen printing)