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Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen in a "flood stroke" to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact.
The Andy Warhol Museum, North Shore, Pittsburgh Cow Wallpaper is a screen print by American artist Andy Warhol in 1966. Warhol created a series of four screen prints from 1966 to 1976.
In 1975, Andy Warhol created a series of 250 screenprints based on pop-culture icon Mick Jagger. Warhol had created past album covers for the Rolling Stones when he did the cover for Sticky Fingers. Andy had Jagger pose in 10 different positions to create 10 sets of 25 screenprints for a total of 250 pieces.
Warhol in 1973. Campbell's Soup I (sometimes Campbell's Soup Cans I) is a work of art produced in 1968 by Andy Warhol as a derivative of his Campbell's Soup Cans series. 250 sets of these screenprints were made by the Salvatore Silkscreen Company in New York City. It consists of ten prints each measuring 91.8 by 61.3 centimetres (36.1 in × 24. ...
Gerard Malanga, Andy Warhol's silk screening assistant in The Factory. Prior to working as Warhol's screen-printing assistant, Gerard Malanga grew up in the Bronx to a very traditional family. Much like Warhol, he studied Graphic and Advertising Design but found more of his passion in poetry which he later came to realise was difficult in ...
Gold Marilyn Monroe is a screenprint painting by Andy Warhol based on a photograph of the actress Marilyn Monroe's face centered on a large (6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) x 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)) gold-painted canvas. [1] [2] Warhol used silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas.
The works produced by Warhol's factory became tremendously valuable: A $195 million print from the "Marilyn" series set a record two years ago for the priciest American artwork, as well as the ...
The essential tools required are a squeegee, a mesh fabric, a frame, and a stencil. Unlike many other printmaking processes, a printing press is not required, as screen printing is essentially stencil printing. Screen printing may be adapted to printing on a variety of materials, from paper, cloth, and canvas to rubber, glass, and metal.