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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 to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a ...
Left panel of the Shōrin-zu byōbu (松林図 屏風, Pine Trees screen) by Hasegawa Tōhaku, c. 1595. Byōbu (屏風, lit. 'wind wall') are Japanese folding screens made from several joined panels, bearing decorative painting and calligraphy, used to separate interiors and enclose private spaces, among other uses.
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The Pine Trees screen (松林図 屏風, Shōrin-zu byōbu) is a pair of six-panel folding screens ( byōbu) by the Japanese artist Hasegawa Tōhaku (長谷川 等伯), founder of the Hasegawa school of Japanese art. [1] [2] The precise date for the screens is not known, but they were clearly made in the late 16th century, in the Momoyama ...
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The production of silk originated in Neolithic China within the Yangshao culture (4th millennium BC). Though it would later reach other places in the world, the art of silk production remained confined to China until the Silk Road opened at 114 BC.
1962 – Henry Geldzahler, curator of 20th-century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, took Robert Rauschenberg to Andy Warhol's studio; Warhol showed the visiting artist how he made art from screen prints. Rauschenberg then used screen printing soon after that in his 1962 work Crocus, to transfer an image in black ink.
History of printing. The history of printing starts as early as 3000 BCE, when the proto-Elamite and Sumerian civilizations used cylinder seals to certify documents written in clay tablets. Other early forms include block seals, hammered coinage, pottery imprints, and cloth printing.