ARHI 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 64: Screen Printing, Hedda Sterne, The Irascibles
3 Mar 2017
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Silkscreen printing is one of the most versatile printing processes, capable of placing a heavy coverage of ink on a wide variety of surfaces. Silkscreen printing was first developed in china during the sung dynasty and uses a stencil process. The image area of the screen is open and allows ink to pass through, while the rest of the screen is masked off. Prints are produced in limited numbers of identical impressions, called editions. The printmaker has the ethical responsibility of making sure each print is similar enough to the others that each person who buys a print has a high-quality image. When a print is deemed identical to others in the edition it is assigned a number in the production sequence. Even though they could create more prints than they do, most artists decide to print a set number of prints: a limited edition. Sole woman in a group of abstract painters called the irascibles.
