Art Blog and Artist Statement Maya Kohl
Printmaking originated in China, when they would paint on paper a symbol or text to create a message. They did it to express a belief in the religion. Later became popular in relief printmaking in Europe. In Europe they became very advance with paper mills and printing other religions symbols. It was a discovery around the 15th century. The whole process of printmaking was from the East. The first original printing stamp invention was cut steel and brands, they used this to mark animals or prosteners. Later in the 15th century books were created on woodblocks, in Germany. In Japan in the 18th century, it became know from china, so the Japanese created colors in printmaking. The imagery and colors are still today used in the trending fashions and books. Years later it became very successful because it developed into an equally aesthetic and commercial process printmaking became widespread with advanced ink in 1960. It was very popular around the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, because they printed out banners and poster to express peace.
Relief printing is when there is ink applied to a woodcut or metal carved plate. So when the surface face is placed on paper the area cut into the plate will show up. Other printmaking could simply be drawing, or using paint to fill in the empty places cut out. Or there is intaglio, which is when an object is engraved with design prints. There are prints like lithography where the ink is placed on a surface where it’s needed and placed carefully onto one specific area and rolled over or pushed into the paper, and when peeling it off leave the ink where it was placed. Another type of printing would be serigraphy which is when ink is forced through a silk screening to create a design. One more example of printmaking is monoprinting that's when there are specific lines that can only be drawn one and printed down carefully. But unlike most printmaking this one has many techniques to how this could be done.
This flower shows a serigraphy type print. Its layered colors to blend together to make a whole print. I find this serigraphy printed print artistically interesting because of how many layers it took to complete something so realistic. I think it shows a impressive job at matching opposite colors to make the main focus really pop. I see texture in the petals within the mixture of coloring and middle core of the flower. There isn't similarly in the flowers petals but in the shape I see it so it fills out the whole canvas which is pleasing to the eye. I noticed each line drawn is not distinct they bleed into other colors to make it more realistic and I wonder how they did that because it was a print so they must of layered the ink patterns very carefully.
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