Printmaking History, Processes, and Artists

Some forms of printmaking have been used for hundreds of years to replicate designs and copy images. For example, etching has been used in europe since the 1300's. From the 1800-1900's printmaking was mostly used for advertisements, books, and for newspapers. Printmaking has also been used for t-shirt designs and other clothing designs.


Wood
Woodblock printing uses positive and negative space to determine what the image is. The wood is usually carved or chiseled. The wood block can then be used to print its image onto other surfaces and materials such as fabric.

Fabric
In fabric printmaking there are many ways to transfer images to the fabric. One way is to use a woodblock as I've already explained. Another way is to take a roller with ink and a positive/negative space image and toll it over the fabric to transfer the image.

Metal
Etching has been used for hundreds of years to make images with metal. It is done by taking the surface of some metal, and putting a strong acid on it which will rot away unprotected parts of the metal leaving an etching when it is finished.

Stone
Lithographing allows an artist who doesn't use chisels or carving tools to make a piece of art on stone that can be transfered over to paper or other surfaces. It is done by painting the stone with an oil based greasy substance to whatever design is desired. Next the artist will wet the stone, in this case where he painted will not soak up the water, then he will add ink and press paper to the stone to copy his painting.

Art Movement: Expressionism

Purpose: 

• To make connections between the Expressionist Art Movement and artists who worked in that style, including artists from our past and present;
  
• To respond visually to artists who work(ed) in the style of the Expressionist Art Movement, by creating a work of art in this style.
  

Expressionism was made to express subjective emotions rather than objective realities. It began around the early 20th century mainly in Germany and Austria. In many cases artists were expressing how an event made them feel, in the case of Germany and Austria, artists were expressing how they felt about the war. Edvard Munch's work usually included emotions such as misery, sickness, and death. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was one of the leaders of Die Brucke, a group of Expressionist artists. Lastly, Franz Marc created some very moving works of Expressionist art but died young in WW1 at the age of 36

Comparing Edvard Munch and Siri Beckman I found that Siri is much more detailed than Edvard is in his artwork. Siri depicts her artwork as it would look with very detailed lines. Edvard depicts his artwork with less detail, but enough to tell what the work of art is easily. Also Siri tends to do more works of art to do with wildlife, as where Edvard has more of a focus on people.

J.P. Fisher

Edvard Munch, ...........

In the top image the artwork seems more defined and less scratchy than the artwork done by Edward Munch. However the top piece of work looks more like a work of art from a cartoon as where the bottom picture looks like it has more feeling to it.

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Still-life Studies

Purpose: 

To use strong compositional skills to depict a fruit or vegetable 

To use knowledge of color and a variety of brush strokes to paint a still-life

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of what I remember from the last paintings is to make sure that I spend my time trying to get the right colors. Also, another helpful tip for myself is to do the background first so that way I don't have to worry about overlapping an important part of a fruit. Lastly, I want to remember to make sure that my highlights are not too bright and stand out less.

One thing that worked well for me was putting at least two layers on the canvas. This is because without the second layer there are many spots where white peeks out, and the brush marks are prominent in a bad way (in my opinion). Also, using a complementary color scheme worked out very well for me, I found that using the opposite color for blending usually created the color I needed.