Screenprint
スクリーンプリント／シルクスクリーン / 20th century– / Technique / Stencil Printing
Blocks and opens a mesh stencil, forcing ink through with a squeegee — hard contours and strong, even color, layer by layer.
Hard contours / Flat color planes / Layer-by-layer overlap / Slight misregistration
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
- Not a color-separation filter. Design the number of screens, printing order, opacity, registration, support.
- Further study
- serigraphy / squeegee / photo emulsion / Andy Warhol