Bellmer - Gravure N° 6

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Artist BELLMER Hans
Technics Etching
Material Arches Paper
Size 25,59" x 19,68" Inchees

"Gravure N° 6"

Original etching, signed and numbered by the artist.

Print 150 copies.

Good but yellowed paper slightly due to the weather.

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BURN THE DIFFERE

The intaglio .1.

 

HISTORY

Born probably the work of the goldsmith in Africa to adorn the silver dishes, carved decor in the material is coated with a black solution to make it more visible. What will become the printed etching seizes the line of recessed pattern unlike the Savings size where the drawing appears in relief (woodcut).

 

PRINCIPLE

The process involves incising on a rigid support (copper, steel, zinc ...) drawing a line whose engraved and inked printing leaves its imprint on paper. Wiped with a gauze (tarlatan), the palm of the hand, one possible indicator for the quality of the ink, will end the operation. The paper previously moistened and brushed to bristle fiber, sucks in every detail the ink of the engraving in the press effect.

 

BURIN

The chisel has a cut point of steel, very sharp diamond that allows pure incision on the previously polished copper. The serious artist copper more or less deeply as he wants a line more or less black. Safe and measured gesture hollow plate and makes an instantly recognizable trait net on burning.

 

DRY TIP

Drypoint is a copper engraving technique performed with a steel pen (or steel tip) or a diamond sparkle.

Entering the board, the tip emerges barbs that hold the ink and gives precise contour lines less than the chisel.

It is this very special effect with very deep blacks who is wanted by the drypoint recorders.

 

BLACK WAY

Mezzotint, also said mezzotint, based on the principle of from black to reach the light.

To do this, the entire plate is cut with a "cradle" (goes to sleep) which gives a regular pattern and capable of retaining ink.

The drawing appears more or less clear, crushing the barbs of the frame with a "scraper" or "burnishing".

 

Artists often use different techniques to joint the same engraving.

 

 

The intaglio .2.

 

Indirect processes or hot processes are treated with acids and concern etching and aquatint.

 

HISTORY

Dürer discovered the principle of etching probably after seeing the burners breastplates that use acid to burn faster metal.

 

PRINCIPLE

The plate is soaked in an acid attack which places not covered with varnish or resin (hence the drawing). Bites or pigmentation obtained on the plate is inked and wiped with tarlatan and the palm of the hand. The preparation of the paper, ink and printing follow the same principles as those applied to direct processes and must be repeated for each print. The artist often uses several plates for the same print.

 

WATER-FORTE

The etcher draws to tip on a polished metal plate and pickled previously coated with a varnish. The plate is immersed in an acid that bites only the exposed parts (the drawing), the varnish protecting the rest. The line will be more corroded than copper or other metal remains immersed in more or less in the acid bath.

 

AQUATINT

This process allows to give the engraving material comparable effects to the wash. Used on the surface of work, it consists in spreading a resin powder on the plate is heated to cure the resin that sticks to the support.

Dipped in the acid bath, the thus prepared plate is bitten in the uncovered parts by resin grains.

The result is a pigment which provides after printing, often colored shades (shimmer ...).

 

Artists often use different techniques to joint the same engraving.

Biography of BELLMER Hans:

Hans Bellmer is a French artist of German origin, born March 13, 1902 in Katowice in Silesia. His father tries to fight against the rebellious spirit that animates it by forcing it to work in a mine, then in a steel mill. In 1923, he took courses at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin and meets the initiators of Dadaism. He followed various positions as a typographer, book illustrator and draftsman.

On arrival to power of the Nazis in 1933, Bellmer decided not to do anything that would be useful to the state and fully launched in the art. It creates, in 1934, the surrealist object par excellence: The Doll. Following the discovery, the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin, mobile dolls Dürer, he decided to dislocate his and begins to explore the possibilities of the anatomy of desire. If she is starting a rebellion against all authority device, the provocative doll becomes the instrument of a different investigation: new thinking on the body, making the fetish object Bellmer reference creation for contemporary erotic expression. His goal: "rephysiologiser dizziness passion to invent desires. "

In 1934, he discovered a number of the Minotaur review and contacts with the Parisian surrealist group. They recognize in her doll and the pictures he made in a new way to open the mind of the company to his unconscious fantasies.

During World War II, Hans Bellmer takes refuge in France. In 1939, he published his photographs in a book called the doll the Games accompanied by a poem by Paul Eluard. Following a check of the French police, he was imprisoned at Camp des Milles near Marseille until 1940 with Max Ernst, and Wols Springer.

Bellmer wrote a text-contracted in 1957 which intends to demonstrate its approach, entitled Little anatomy of physical unconscious or small anatomy of the image. His last wife, Unica Zurn, will work with him the anagram plastic until 1975, when he died.

In 2006, the Centre Pompidou organized a retrospective, focusing on the anatomy of desire, concept at the heart of the unique creation of the French artist.

 

Hans BELLMER died February 23, 1975 in Paris.

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