PRINTMAKING - Robert Rauschenberg

Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artists, who's work Predicted the Pop art movement.

I started looking through Rauschenberg's prints and noticed that most of the ones i was looking at were, Lithographs. I could not remember what they were, and for fear of looking at something that was not a print, i looked it up on the Tate.org.

Lithography is a printing process that is based on the fact that grease and water repel one and other. I looked into it and found it very interesting! I wont ramble on about how to do a lithograph but all the information i found was here - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/l/lithography

I also found a great youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc

The first Print of Rauschenberg that i was really interested in is this:

Water Stop- Lithograph -1968

Every time i look at different printmakers work i always find myself surprised and a lot of the time taken back by this form of art. I found out this print was made between Autumn 1967 and May 1968 and was made from images about Robert Kennedy's candidacy for presidency and was made a week before his assassination... BUT....the reason i like this print is not because of its political comment or intent but, simply because i find the composition almost rhythmic. I like how it looks, and sometimes i think it can be that simple, to enjoy something because you find it pleasing to look at. I can almost read it, from left to right, it almost seems like paragraphs in a book, that go from dark to light with a pop of orange that really attracts my eye... the blank space in the bottom right corner just makes the image for me... It feels like the end of the paragraph. The space at the end that makes you consider everything you have just absorbed.

I have always been drawn to collage type art because of how much you discover about it the more you look at it, and this is just that, the lines and shapes that form the more i look... the more i see.

Lawn - 1965- Lithograph on paper

This print really caught my eye also because of the energy behind it. I don't overly like it, But I appreciate it. One thing I can really feel from prints is energy, and this one I feel the speed and energy behind it, the way the lines form or how the ink has printed, especially in the bottom right corner I find really interesting.

I really wanted to try Lithograph, but I had no way of doing it in the traditional form, so I did some research and found a way I can do it from home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBUlEt6vWw

I will try out this technique over the weekend and put my results in my sketch book and do a separate post about my results.

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