Contemporary Issues in Printmaking

• September 19, 2016
• Presenter: Gwen Montgomery
• Printmaking is not major in art and design 
• Print making is:
• The process of making artwork by transferring ink from matrixes onto paper
• Deliberate art decisions
• Not just reproductions of other works
• Unique images designed from the start to be expressed in specific techniques
• By limiting the available # of prints they can charge more money for it
• The ability to make more is:
• A stigma
• Democratic
• Printmaking has been with us since the beginning in 7300 B.C.
• Hand prints on the walls of caves
• Blowing powder

• Printmaking is a technology
• Albrecht Durer (Rhinoceros) 
  
• The Rhino looks like a half turtle
• Drawn from text
• A little more fantastical than reality
• Without printmaking information gets jumbled
• Printmaking like sex, is not solely about reproduction.
• About the ability to expand their reach to the public
• Andy Warhol
  • Champion screen printing
  • Celebrates culture
  • Explores concepts of reproduction
  • How something fades or changes
  • Used some element of screen printing for a photographic image onto their work
  
  
• Social engagement with people in printmaking