Block Print
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Block Print
23cm x 15cm September 2019 Exhibition Text Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein's work, the pop art movement and book cover of "Archenemies" by Marissa Meyer, I created a block print criticizing how many, including family and close friends, view beauty in a materialistic society. Many people put down others for their body shape, weight and height. I conveyed how society forces others to change and how it affects them. I used the pop art movement because they take simple, everyday items/people and twist that perspective to convey their point. |
Planning
Inspirations
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Process
Experimentation
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Process
- Research
- First, I decided what artist(s) and/or movements I wanted to connect my artwork to. I choose the pop art movement and from that movement I connected it to Roy Lichtenstein (After changing my subject of the piece).
- Planning sketches
- After, I drew 4 sketches, 3 rough drafts and one final.
- Transfer process
- Next, I filled the back of the final page with graphite pencil led, placed the linoleum sheet under it, and traced over my final drawing. This allowed me to transfer the image to my linoleum sheet.
- Carving
- Afterwards, I carved out all of the spaces that weren't led. The process of carving out works backwards, everything carve away becomes positive space on the print.
- Printing
- For this step you need three separate newsprint sheets for your materials. The first one has the ink tray, ink, spoon, and brayer (tool to apply ink to print) so that all the ink materials dirty one spot.
- The next one holds your print so that if you accidentally roll off it, it won't dirty the table.
- The Last sheet is to do a clean print
- You add a bit of ink to the ink tray
- Roll the ink evenly on the brayer
- Apply it to the print
- Place paper on print
- Rub it out with a baren( tool that allows you to evenly apply pressure on your print)
- Let print dry
Reflection
I feel the technical skill of the project was really good because its hard to make circles on a block print, let alone the many I did on mine. I also didn't carve through the linoleum sheet but I stilled managed to make a clean print. I need to work on my time management skills because I was planning to add color to it but I ran out of time. I could have done a much better job. The lack of time management was affected by me changing my project idea and starting my print over. This experience made me earn that I need to thoroughly plan before starting the project.
Compare and contrast
- similarities
- comic like style
- uses simplistic forms to convey a big theme- struggle with self identity in a materialistic society
- two silhouettes looking in for dramatic effect
- differences
- medium used- linoleum and canvas
- black and white, color
ACT response
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork:
- By adding the the recognizable and simple forms and the comic like "circles" in my piece, I made a clear connection to my inspiration.
- Roy Lichtenstein used pop art to convey ironically convey the American ideals/beliefs by using the so called "worst thing" and making it an art piece.
- While researching, I found that the art community is quite similar to modern society in the sense that they have strict beliefs and ideals, that anyone that doesn't abide by them is immediately considered an outcast.
- My theme is identities and relationships. In this piece specifically, the struggle with ones own identity versus societies ideals
- An inference I Made reading was Roy Lichtenstein was an open-minded and engaged man because he always sought different methods to make artwork and constantly challenged the American ideals and what was considered real
Bibliography
“BIOGRAPHY.” Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, 2019, https://lichtensteinfoundation.org/biography/.
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. W. W. Norton & Company, 1962.
MoMA Learning.” MoMA, 2019, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/pop-art/.
“Pop Art Movement Overview.” The Art Story, The Art Story Foundation, 2019, https://www.theartstory.org/movement/pop-art/.
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. W. W. Norton & Company, 1962.
MoMA Learning.” MoMA, 2019, https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/pop-art/.
“Pop Art Movement Overview.” The Art Story, The Art Story Foundation, 2019, https://www.theartstory.org/movement/pop-art/.