Essays on Silkscreen

Retroactive I is a silkscreen painting that Rauschenberg made in 1963. He used silkscreen and oil on a canvas to come up with this painting. This silkscreen work is considered the best of Rauschenberg's works of this nature. It falls within a series of similar paintings done by Rauschenberg between 1962 and 1964. This piece of art is drawn from the popular press and is, therefore, a representation of Pop art. Rauschenberg was keen in representing American iconography and Pop culture (Shanes, 175). He was, throughout his career, identified with Pop culture. He developed a style that emphasized on ...

Modernism created Post-Modernism and the emergence of these two influential art movements created a lasting impact on the artists’ perception of iconography. The history concerning modernism dates back in the Renaissance period since the majority of the artists at that time explored various kinds of iconography such as painting mythological creatures, portraiture, and humanism which contrasts the iconography of the Medieval period. But the lasting effects of the modern period were felt in the early 19th century up to the early phase of the 20th century. The concept of Modernism meant an improvisation of the existing artistic trend by ...

William Kentridge (South African artist)

William Kentridge is a famous South African artist who draws and erases with charcoal. What is interesting about him is that he records his compositions at each stage and creates a video projection of the re-worked source drawings. This makes his aesthetic concerns linked intimately with the descriptive power of his work. There is a palpable tension in his quiet works because of the brutality of the content. Kentridge shows his concerns of post-Apartheid South Africa with an unparalleled lyricism in his compositions 1. Kentridge is a filmmaker and sculptor too and has been heavily involved in theatre. One ...