Whammo! ZINE! due October 17th

These posters were made my Lexi, Tamar, and Rachel.

If y'all want to also make some posters we can scan them and print them out!

Look for these around campus and tell all your friends!

WHAMMO! Monsters and Weenies! 

Daumiers Lithographs by Henry L. Seaver and William Makepeace Thackeray
The Far Gallery Booklets “on prints and printmakers”


Lithography was still a young art at the height of Daumier’s career. He used lithography as a medium because it easily recorded swift and spontaneous character of mark making. He made 3958 social satirical works. His work talked a lot about political oppression and pretenses and always ridiculed the efforts of politicians of priests that would “put out all the lights.”

Shinagawa Takumi

Shinagawa Takumi was a Japanese printmaker who was also skilled in metalwork and photography. In his early prints he worked a lot with images of the human figure, and over the years his work gradually moved toward abstraction and the simplification of forms. He was especially interested in the characteristics of color as it was printed on paper, as well as obtaining new colors by mixing and layering colors to get the effects that he wanted.

I think its interesting how he positions the figures within the space, and the different angles he chooses to view the figure at.

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source: Statler, Oliver. Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn.

Edvard

Edvard Munch is one of those ubiquitous artists about whom I didn't actually know much. Turns out he's pretty cool and has made more work than The Scream. This print is a 1901 woodcut from 2 blocks (one is three pieces) and it's called Melancholy (Evening). Munch considered himself a Symbolist, and one can also see strong Romantic influence in his work. It's evocative, emotional and expressive. He felt that his works captured only the essential, and that's why there are often open spaces that at the time looked "unfinished." He was both a painter and a printmaker, and is known for both media. He worked back and forth between painting and printmaking, really exploring themes and motifs in imagery. However, Munch turned to the reproductive process of printmaking partway through his career because it was so hard for him to sell paintings because he was so attached to them. I'm really drawn to Edvard Munch's aesthetic and themes - his work is sad and weird and makes you feel with him. It reminds me of the same feeling I get when I look at Francis Bacon's paintings (a quick google search tells me that he also made prints. I should learn more). There's something visceral in them that connects to me emotionally.

Katie Walker

Source: Elizabeth Prelinger and Michael Parke-Taylor, The Symbolist Prints of Edvard Munch, Yale University Press, 1996

kiki smith

KIKI SMITH

Kiki Smith was born in Germany but is known as an American sculptor and often printmaker. Motifs in her works involve bodies/organs and animals and narrative/religion. She's known as a "feminist artist" cos her representations of ladies are funny/quirky as opposed to erotic. Her sculptures are often life size and involve generic female bodies and exaggerated limbs. She's got a funny sculpture in the Pulitzer of a person surrounded by yellow beads called "Peeing". 

Her dad was a minimalist artist. You should watch this art21 doc on her (also Kara Walker) http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/smith/. She is basically a witch.

source:  Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things / Wendy Weitman/MOMA