Traces the development of James McNeil Whistler’s (1834-1903) graphic style and techniques from his earliest etchings of the 1850s through the images done around the turn of the century.
tells the tale of a boy who helps his grandfather the etcher, and he watches and narrates the process as he assists. When it comes time for the boy’s most important job, coloring the prints by hand, he passes the time by imagining himself inside the pictures.
Focuses on three techniques that complement each other in the classroom and the studio. Includes information and activities about relief prints, monotypes and silkscreen prints.
Looks at the screenprinting from a historical as well as artistic perspective. Serigraphy, also known as “silkscreen,” or, “screenprint,” is a stencil process that is described in detail in this video.
Considered “the printmaker to the Mexican People”, Jose Guadalupe Posada was an artist who captured in his prints the feelings and yearnings of the people and their frustrations that led to the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Intends to place the work of Posada in its context, to evoke the social and political climate of Posada’s Mexico, to suggest the artistic and folkloric sources of Posada’s powerful personal imagery, and to describe the nature and influence of the publications in which his prints appeared.
Introduces how a print is made, explore and discover printmaking with a variety of natural and man-made objects, explore the idea of pattern as a repeated image and experience making prints by rolling, stamping and rubbing.
