The oldest form of printing. Serigraphy (or serigraphy) is the romantic island in the great sea of the reproduction of works of art. Silkscreen is a combination of the Latin word for "silk", "seri", and the Greek word for "writing", "graphos". This ancient method of duplicating an original painting is one of the oldest forms of printing.
Screen printing dates back to 9000 BC, when stencils were used to decorate Egyptian tombs and Greek mosaics. From 221 to 618 AD stencils were used in China for the production of Buddha images. The Japanese artists turned the Silkscreen on a complex art by developing an intricate process in which a piece of silk stretched across a frame to serve as the carrier hand - cut templates. Screen printing found its way west in the 15th century.
Screen printing acquired the status of artin the 1930s when a group of artists experimented with the technique and later began making "fine art" screenprints and designed the term "Screenprint" to distinguish fine art from commercial screen printing. In the 1950s by Luitpold Domberger in Stuttgart, Germany. He offered his printing studio to artists associated with the Op Art movement. Respected artists such as Victor Vasarely and Josef Albers combined their artistic visions with Domberger's relentless pursuit of screen perfection. They created superior, finely executed silkscreens that were sought after by art galleries and collectors around the world. These efforts, combined with the experimentation of artists like Jackson Pollock, helped keep the screen printing medium at the forefront of printmaking.
Screen printing is a time- honored technique. This classic method involves processes intensive in labor and materials based on stencils to create prints by hand.
Start by determining how many colors are represented in the original painting. The print studio creates a separate screen for each color to be printed. If there are 70 printed colors, there must be 70 ready-made screens created by a chromist (hand-held color stripper artist) that are embedded in the fabric, and the ink is passed through a squeegee on the canvas creating a texture on the surface.
Each hand-mixed color is printed with water-based inks (base and pigments) and then placed on large print racks to dry. After about two to three hours, the next color can be printed. The print grows with each print, becoming richer and more complete, until the artist is satisfied. On a normal day, 1 to 2 colors can be printed. In the final stage, a texture varnish is applied to simulate one by one the stroke of the artist's brush. An edition of 300, with 70 colors can take 2-4 months to complete.
