Saturday, October 16, 2010

Stone lithography I - Alois Senefelder


While Visual media law are different, was one of the most important turning points with the invention of printing.  A real revolutionary creation, opened a whole new medium in the form of relief prints. For the first time an artist was able to carve an image on wood or metal blocks, the block ink and impress on paper. In addition, high pressure created the first type of reproducible art.

  The action of carving a picture has its own challenges and the first results were quite different from all other traditional techniques used until that moment.For example, is an intrinsic difficulty in reversing the image on the plate and it is a complex skill, patience erfordert.Die method of the ink and printing on paper requires considerable skill and knowledge of a long process with multiple steps.

Alois Senefelder started practicing on cheaper disks of the Bavarian limestone at attempting, his ability to engraving to perfect reverse images on copper plates.  In addition to the introduction in the use of limestone slab, concocted Senefelder a mixture of wax, SOAP, lamp black and rainwater that he uses as a correction fluid on the copper plates.

Specific lithography brought these two main elements together, experiments and a dose of Serendipity.Senefelder realized that the use of its correction fluid on the limestone a surface resistant against water created. oil based ink would not comply with the wet stone.  The basic concept based lithography had been formulated. Senefelder continued, patented his 1799 printing method.

The appearance of the stone lithography allowed was the first printmaking technology using familiar methods the traditional artist. By lithography, the artist could create prints that an original painting towards could compete exquisite detail, mood and color of variations.It became very popular as a medium of the 1830s and it was widely used to create illustrations for books, as well as flyers and posters.It is still used today by artists all over the world.

The appearance of the stone lithography changed the term of the prints in a radical way. of course were started with Senefelder's original litho printing process on the innovation in the Jahren.In of time were you today the modern offset lithographic printing so popular.Many artists still feel that Senefelder's traditional method of the artist really shine through creative expression allows the original process is, it individual and distinctive features in each individual print integriert.Im never replicates essence that can images and each print is an original yourselves.








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