Épinal Print
エピナル版画 / 1796– / Style / Popular Prints
The popular prints mass-produced by Pellerin of Épinal from 1796: clear outlines and stencil color telling stories, armies and morals — so defining of popular vision that 'image d'Épinal' came to mean a rosy cliché.
Clear outlines / Bright stencil coloring / Stories in panels / Morals and hero tales
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the Pellerin workshop / pochoir stencil coloring / the prehistory of bande dessinée