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Silk-Screen Process

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Silk-Screen Process 

a stenciling technique in which the image is applied with oil paints or watercolors on a mesh made of silk or other strong material stretched over a frame. The sections of the mesh corresponding to the blank areas in the image are covered with an impermeable compound; during the printing process the paint is squeezed with a doctor through the openings in the mesh onto the surface to be imprinted. The silk-screen process, which originated in the mid-20th century, is used for pictorial reproductions, including production art, and in the creation of individual works marked by an enhanced vividness and decorative coloring.



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The starting point is Merian's painstaking engravings, whose exactness Fries preserves by using a silk-screen process to print them, or images of the jacket of the modern edition of them, directly on the wood panel, or, in one section, by inserting them through elements of collage.
The collection includes four sets of colored cylindrical vases made from mouth-blown glass, coated with three layers of glass, crackled off cold, and featuring Rashid's contemporary icons applied with a glossy enamel silk-screen process.
In Bradbury's shop, rolls of paper are still stretched out on long tables and craftspeople painstakingly layer on paint and designs in a silk-screen process, duplicating traditional methods.
 
 
 
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