A random survey of self-portraits created by women through the centuries
Chilean artist Juana Gómez (born 1980)
Self (detail), 2015 / Hand embroidery on photograph printed on linen / Private collection
Self (detail), 2015 / Hand embroidery on photograph printed on linen / Private collection
c.1935-45 / Each: 4 7/16″x1 9/16″
Souvenir Views Matchbook Cover series, Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, The Met, NY, NY
c.1970s-1980s / Poster of manipulated image / 18 3/4”x13 1/4” / Middle Eastern Posters Collection, Box 3, Poster 164, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Previous November 4 posts:
November 4~ Artists at their Easels
Robert Mapplethorpe: American Photographer (1946-1989)
Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/4~
From a 10-month series of paintings for Collier’s titled “The Great Explorers”/issue dated Dec. 9, 1905
1905 / Lithographic reproduction of an oil painting / Image: 8 3/5”x12 1/4” /
Various collections, including Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
Previous February 23 posts:
February 23~ African-American visual artists
Men in Wigs
Artist Birthday Quiz for 2/23~
Meiji period (1868–1912) / Two-panel folding screen: ink, lacquer, silver, and silver leaf on paper
Image (each panel) 18”x33 1/4” / The Metropolitan Museum of Art≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈ ≈
c.1812 / Oil on paper laid on canvas / 6 3/4”x13 1/4” / Victoria and Albert Museum, London
c.1800 / Pen & black ink, wash, & watercolor on paper / Image 3 1/2”x4 7/8”
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
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1835-1836 / Color woodblock print / 10 3/8”x14 3/4” / Various, incl. Art Institute of Chicago
Alois Senefelder (1771-1834) was an Austrian actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1798. Born Aloys Johann Nepomuk Franz Senefelder in Prague where his actor father was appearing on stage. He was educated in Munich and won a scholarship to study law at Ingolstadt. The death of his father in 1791 forced him to leave his studies to support his mother and eight siblings, and he became an actor and wrote a successful play Connoisseur of Girls.
Problems with the printing of his play Mathilde von Altenstein caused him to fall into debt, and unable to afford to publish a new play he had written, Senefelder experimented with a novel etching technique using a greasy, acid resistant ink as a resist on a smooth fine-grained stone of Solnhofen limestone. He then discovered that this could be extended to allow printing from the flat surface of the stone alone, the first planographic process in printing. He joined with the André family of music publishers and gradually brought his technique into a workable form, perfecting both the chemical processes and the special form of printing press required for using the stones. He called it “stone printing” or “chemical printing”, but the French name “lithography” became more widely adopted.
FROM http://www.radio.cz/en/static/inventors/senefelderLithography is a printing technique that gives multiple reproductions of an image drawn with ink or crayon on a certain type of limestone. The image must be prepared with a chemical process so that the grease contained in the ink or crayon (both being specially made for lithographic work) becomes permanently fixed to the stone. When the naturally absorbant stone is wetted before printing the lithographic ink will be retained in all areas containing grease and repelled in all other areas. The characteristic of this printing technique lies in the fact that the image area and the non-image area react differently to the presence of ink.
FROM http://www.polymetaal.nl/beguin/mapl/lithography/lithodefinition.htm
In 1818 this designer’s widow completed and published her late husband’s “Manuale Tipografico” in two volumes.
Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/02/16/february-16/
Kanō Eitoku (1543-1590)
http://jyuluck-do.com/profile_kano_eitoku.html
Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813)
http://www.linotype.com/683/giambattistabodoni.html