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Exploring Distortion And Clarity In The Modern Printed Portrait, Karina M. Harper
Exploring Distortion And Clarity In The Modern Printed Portrait, Karina M. Harper
Summer Research
My work has focused on two sides of the artistic process: inspiration and application. While studying abroad, I read, saw, and experienced modern France, living with a host family in Dijon. In the midst of this, I researched the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a French printmaker who utilized the lithographic process and pushed it forward as a modern and respected art practice. Lithography is a type of art involving changing the chemical nature of limestone to attract ink where an image is drawn with greasy pens. Returning to the Puget Sound campus and to one of the few lithograph …
Copperplate Etching, Traditional And Modern Techniques And Exploring Philosophical Concepts, Bianca Jarvis
Copperplate Etching, Traditional And Modern Techniques And Exploring Philosophical Concepts, Bianca Jarvis
Summer Research
The main idea that I worked with and that evolved through this process is that death created time, and that our bodies are confining vehicles used to accomplish or do what our mind/ soul needs to express. Although death may not seem like a clear theme in these pieces, the temporal significance of our bodies is something that is attached to death, the ultimate end of our physical self. Our bodies are the physical manifestation of the self, a fleshy concept of who we are or want to be. I focused on the female figure in my prints as a …