Transcript Level 3 Printmaking 2012

Level 3 Printmaking 2012
3.1 Analyse methods and ideas from established
printmaking practice
LOVE AND EMOTION
JIM DINE
• Jim Dine is a well known artist who works with a wide range
of media and subjects. Dine is from Cincinnati, Ohio and was
born on June 16th 1935 and started his printmaking career in
1962. his prints tell stories and symbolise memories of
people and things he loves. When using hearts in his work he
represents the love he has with his wife, when the tools are
printed they represent the old family hardware store from
when he was young and his father and grandfather and
Pinocchio is portrayed to show his favourite story an
character from his childhood. His works are very expressive
and he uses sharp lines and the method of etching to
enhance this look. Jim Dine is known as a draftsman as mot
of his prints are based on drawings first.
Carnegie Hall Heart, 1986 Lithography
Hearts were a common theme to Dines work and in this print he has created a
heart image using expressive linear mark accompanied with line and tonal marks
surrounding it.
The gestural surface marks create a ‘pulsing energy’ that relates to the beating life
and emotional content of the heart as a symbol.
This print by Dine was taken
directly from a drawing made
during the night in a hotel in
Los Angeles while he was
undergoing a long period of
psychotherapy. He
commented that drawing this
work in the middle of the
night “allowed him to
exorcise his demons”. His
also reused this plate in a
later print – ‘My night in
Santa Monica (the Bistre
version)’.
My Nights in Santa Monica, 1986
Etching, direct gravure, spit-back aquatint, soft ground
etching, power tool dry point.
Shellac on a Hand, 1986
Direct gravure, spit-back
aquatint, power-tool dry
point with hand colouring.
This print typifies 2 icons that Dine
used in many works. This work could
possibly be intended to symbolise
Dine’s affecting life and himself and
hands link to the power of god.
Marks are expressive and have a
fluidity aesthetic. Layers of tones are
worked up to make the heart appear
sunk in to hands. Hands are complex
and Dine associated the hand with the
power of God. This print shows Dines
affection, life and himself.
The heart sits in the ‘lifeline’ of the
hand. This implies the image is about
mortality, passion, and the temporary
nature of life.
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The specific techniques Dine has used have allowed him to create a work that is expressive
and personal. Gestural marks are made in a quick manner, possibly reflecting his anger,
emotion and aggression.
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The 3 hearts overlap with a central skull that could symbolise death, life and death and
obviously these icons are influenced by the psychotherapy that Dine was having. The strong
short black marks express energy, layering and a dark night.
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Dine is part pop artist and part abstract expressionist. Pop because he used recognisable
everyday objects like Warhol and Johns. Expressionist because his works are about personal
anguish like Willem de Kooning.
Dine indicates that he does not try to reproduce what an object looks like but strive to
capture its essence. “My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I
don’t mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally”.
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith is well known for her sculptures and prints taking after her
late father Tony Smith. Kiki has been printmaking for many years and
each of Smiths works have their own individual message and purpose,
most common are those about femininity, bodily functions and animals.
She is well known for the political femininity messages she portrays in
her works. Smith does things in her own conventional way like how most
of her prints are printed on to handmade papers from a range of
different countries.
Untitled (Pink Blossom) 1990
Four Screenprints with
gouache additions.
Many of Smiths prints such as these explore the
themes of ‘female nourishment’ and
regeneration. This work looks at the breast and
the producing of milk to give ‘life’. She had been
inspired by artist Peter Paul Rubens work “
origin of the milky way”. Smith used the
expression and spurts of milk as the ‘milky way’.
This supports the theme of female
nourishment.
Moth, 1996
Woodcut with glitter additions and collaged woodcut with
watercolour.
Smith uses insects such as moths and butterflies to symbolise
metamorphosis, rejuvenation and the life of these creatures. She also
used a women’s head to symbolise life of a human and give a feminine
feature to the print. The women’s tongue sis gently skimming the tip of
the moth.
SWOON
Caledonia Curry is known as Swoon – a street worker and in galleries all over the world. She is
well known for her life size prints and figural paper cut-outs she has pasted on walls for the past
10 years, each portrait taking on a new life as it deteriorates through the various elements it has
to withstand. Her work is imperil, however beautiful and powerful at the same time.
Brooklyn, 2004
Stencils and Woodcut
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Swoon is a artist working allot
with stencil instillation outside she
also incorporates woodcuts into
these and puts them up in public
places such as walls and the sides
of buildings such as this one and
in a sense abandons her work and
leaves it deter ate and morph into
another work.
Manhattan, 2003 Cut out stencil
This is another work that shows the sense of
one’s self experiencing life. Although her
work is a type of form of graffiti Swoon is
more trying to inhabit the space her wheatpasted cut outs “collaborate” with the street
to create a time-based public artwork.
The Luggage Store, San Francisco, 2007
Installation with Monica Canilao
Woodcut, Mix media
This colourful intimate work is very
expressive and I think shows emotion
through the figures and the mix of
different colours and patterns that make
up this work. Different shades of colour
represent different forms of life and
emotions through the city of San Francisco
and the world.
While Dine has remained devoted to the deception and incorporation of
common objects, elevated to an almost iconic stature, his changing
expressive intentions and his experimental approach towards technique
have yielded different stylistic results. Although Dine’s stylistic shifts do not
follow a clear, linear path, it can generally be stated that his work of the
early 1960’s is characterized by the aggressive, haphazard energy of his
Happenings and the heritage of the Abstract Expressionist gesture. At times
his line appears a random scrawl and the image-making brutal, much like
Swoon with her expressive, graphite nature of her woodcuts. Much like Dine
there are many similarities between Dine and Swoon and emotion, life, love
are shared and link to the German Expressionism and Abstract Expression.
Bibliography..
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http://www.fatcap.com/artist/swoon.html
‘Swoon’ published by Abram's (2010)
‘Kiki Smith. Prints, Books & things’ published by the museum of modern art (2003)
‘Jim Dine Prints, A catalogue raisonne 1985-2000. By Elizabeth Carpenter.
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=1547
Http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/kiki-smith
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/6aa/6aa66.html
http://www.jca-online.com/ksmith.html