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1.3 Silkscreen Printing Workshop he art of Silkscreen is an old form of print making which can be traced as far back as 9000 BC, when stencils were used to decorate Egyptian tombs and Greek mosaics. From 221-618 AD stencils were used in China for production of images of Buddha. Japanese artists turned screen
printing into a complex art by developing an intricate process wherein a piece of silk was stretched across a frame to serve as the carrier of hand cut stencils. Silkcreen Printing, also goes by the term: Serigraph. The Word Serigraph is a combination of two Greek words, seicos, meaning silk, and graphos, meaning writing. Silkscreen Printing and other stencil-based printing methods are the oldest forms of printmaking. Printmaking is a process for producing editions (multiple originals) of artwork. Painting, on the other hand, is a process for producing a single original piece of artwork. In printmaking, each print in an edition is considered an original work of art, not a copy. Before the development of synthetic materials, silk was used as the screen material, giving this process the name silkscreen. Originally used for commercial purposes in the early 20th century. Artists of the 1960s, notably Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, incorporated screenprinted images from mass media into their works, while in Europe, artists like Alain Jacquet and Gerd Winner took advantage of the unique ability of the medium to produce large-scale prints. Given the long history of silkscreen printing and its bold representation in modern art our partner “Maker Space” in collaboration with our school organized a workshop for our students. The main goal of this workshop was geared toward interdisciplinary uses of print media in contemporary art and cultural dialogue but also in the process of silkprinting as a craft with artistic value.
Programme co-funded by the European Union
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