In the first year i start to make a few prints, always in the subject i chose for the first year, People, Trees and environment.
It seems very important to me all this three subjects, as they become from my influences and worries about our World. As i say before i will start with print, what i have done and why in this course ( such a fantastic course) but i will explain that later. In print i was following a few artists in my research, to reach the better one it was difficult but everything, has solution. This monoprint “the scream” it was one of the first prints i had done.
The design was incised into a block of plywood with a chisel or large nail. The block was then cut up using a jigsaw and the separate pieces individually inked using three colours, brown, yellow and black printing ink. The blocks were reassembled to pass through the printing press. The print is in mint condition and stored mounted.
It will be strange if i don’t talk about my journey in the World of print, i will show now part of my long journey.
Now i will show the work i have done with the influence of Mckeever and also in my concept.
In this print the process it could be called very fun because it was done in a few hours and for me lino cut is a very interesting and never ending process of printing. Print could be where i will stay for the future, because i like all the process involving printmaking, i use to say print is magic, we never know exactly what happening with the colours or ink, it’s one kind of art very interesting. And in continuation about my first year of course. There are more artists i can include in this blog, which i think they were the most important for me in my research, as example, one of the artists is CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN
Talking about prints without talk about one of the best visits i had done during my course the visit to Firstsite in Colchester to see the Exhibition from Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi.
Two artists that they could change the World of print and his conception with techniques they had used for doing they artwork, i will show after the resume about that exhibition, could be the photos don’t have title because, i didn’t took the name of the works done by them.
Nigel Henderson & Eduardo Paolozzi
This movie it is a presentation from the work from Eduardo Paolozzi, one of the artists i was more focus.
Firstsite announces a ground breaking exhibition to explore for the first time the history of Hammer Prints, the Essex-based, applied art collaboration between celebrated artists Nigel Henderson (b. 1917, d. 1985) and Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924, d. 2005).
In 1954 Henderson and Paolozzi registered a limited company ‘to purchase, sell, manufacture, hire or act as agents for the sale of textiles, statuary, ceramics, furniture and photographic equipment’. During the 1950s, the artists designed eleven patterns that were printed as wallpapers and textiles, and used to decorate ceramic wares. Their collaboration merged the ethos of early twentieth-century modernist initiatives, such as the Omega Workshops (1913–19), with a post-war aesthetic that the architectural critic Reyner Banham referred to as ‘New Brutalism’. Describing their initiative as an ‘attack’ on ‘the craft field using the silk-screen’, they employed a combination of techniques with photographic and appropriated imagery, and their designs show the influence of contemporary art movements from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Hammer Prints wallpapers were manufactured by Cole & Son from 1955, and the Lancashire firm, Hull Traders, printed their textiles to order from 1958. Silk ties, headscarves, ceramic tiles, lamp bases, tiled trays and tables were produced in workshops at Landermere near Thorpe-le-Soken, where the two artists lived from 1954.
http://www.firstsite.uk.net/
Perhaps it was also one of the must important visits i had done because it changes my mind, with such a good quality of works i had seen in Firstsite, and also all the history between the two artists.
As seeing here there is a fantastic world around the printmaking, i could say , yes i took influences from the work of then, but not only because while i see the work of Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson i start to think, perhaps to do beautiful art, i need to lost all my fears about art, yes it was what i start to do in this course don’t be so tense, but my Journey still go and i have much more thinks to show like my prints as conclusion from all the influences from artists and as well from my feelings, emotions, and state of mind, all important in my developing of skills.
All my work during my course i will show in a separate post, this because i have a lot of work to show.
and as well i have another movie when me and all the other students, in the beginning of our course, it is only because we can make the things better, if they are funny to see and appreciate.
It was very interesting and funny also, but all my course it is till the moment, one of the biggest challeng in my life, but as well funny also, which is a detail very important.
