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Douglass Screen Printers' First Purchase for their Serigraphy Collection
Published:
March 15, 2006
By Larry Villa
Douglass Screen Printers, Inc.
Douglass Screen Printers was honored
to give a large contribution to Polk Museum of Art in November of
2004. Since 1939 DSP has been a pioneer in commercial printing technologies
based on the old world silk screen techniques. Serigraphy as an
art form has progressed from the earliest cave illustrations created
from pigment blown through reeds around a hand to the Chinese development
of tusche and glue resists to this era’s photographic creation of
a stencil on silk fabric.
Our company has a rich artistic
history and Mrs. Hickey has pledged to always support the arts with
charitable contributions that can be used to support the Douglass
Screen Printers’ Serigraphy Collection.
Douglass Screen Printers has purchased
its first piece by Roy Lichtenstein. Though history has numerous
examples of the intersection of fine art and popular culture, it
wasn’t until after World War II that a large number of visual artist
began to take direct aim at the consumer culture growth. This post
war boom inspired a group of young British artists to create collages
that encapsulated the fast-paced world promoted by the media. For
example, in 1956 a British artist named Richard Hamilton created
a collage named, “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different,
so appealing?”. This collage featured images cut from magazines
of consumer goods, a pin-up girl, and a bodybuilder holding a large
lollipop and the word “POP”. By using commercial reproductions of
these goods he showed his American counterparts how they could use
art to address their culture. By 1960 a new generation of American
artists began to adapt their varying interests in their culture
to new forms of art. This is how Pop Art came about.
The painting purchased was from
an edition of 100 paintings. The work was published by Leo Castelli
and Multiples, Inc. and has a sheet size of 42.75” x 32” and the
image size is 35.25” x 25”. This is one of many “Pop Art” pieces
from the year 1956 through 2006, on display at Polk Museum of Art
now through April 16, 2006.
For more information
on this exciting exhibit, please visit www.polkmuseumofart.org
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