Transcript Andy Warhol Silk screen printing

Andy Warhol
Silkscreen process
Digital Photography I
Andy Warhol
1928-1987
Leading artist in
the pop art
movement
 Combined high art
and mass culture
 Painter, filmmaker,
printmaker
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Pop Art Movement
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“Pop art and pop culture refers to the products
of the mass media evolving in the late 1950s and
60s and also to the works of art that draw upon
popular culture - packaging, television,
advertisements, comic books, the
cinema.”(getpopart.com)
Originally began in Britain in the 1950s
Unlimited reproductions could be made
(controversial)
Process
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Silkscreen (serigraphy) - a printmaking technique
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Tusche - a grease-like liquid used in lithography
in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy
wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen
by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by
having a squeegee force color through the pores of
the material in areas not blocked out by a glue
sizing.
as a medium receptive to lithographic ink, and in
etching and silkscreen as a resist.
Andy Warhol
Left: Self Portrait
 Right: Campbell Soup Can Series II
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Celebrity Prints
Left: Jackie
 Right: 16 Jackie's
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Famous Prints
Left: Beethoven
 Right: Ingrid with a Hat
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Art Historical Prints
Left: Birth of Venus
 Right: Birth of Venus
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Marilyn Prints
Left: Marilyn
 Right: Marilyn
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More Prints
Left: Zebra
 Middle: Mao #91
 Right: Flowers
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Silkscreen style on Photoshop
Over the weekend....
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Take
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4 formal photos
4 informal photos
4 candid photos
References
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Beardsworth, John. Photoshop: Fine Art Effects Cookbook.
Silkscreen Style pp. 160-161. The Ilex Press Limited,
2006.
Warhols.com by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts. www.warhols.com/portraits.html. Accessed 16
February 2009.
The Andy Warhol Museum Website. www.warhol.org/default.asp.
Accessed 16 February 2009.
Cybermuse: Your Art Education Research Site.
Cybermuse.gallery.ca. Accessed 16 February 2009.
GetPopArt.com. www.getpopart.com/pop-art.html. Accessed 19
February 2009.