Royal Academy of Arts hosts The London Original Print Fair |
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| Thursday, 24 April 2008 04:28 |
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LONDON - The London Original Print Fair, the longest-running specialist print fair in the world, will be celebrating twenty-three years at the Royal Academy of Arts. Once again, the Fair is larger than ever and covers all periods of printmaking from the early woodcuts of Dürer and his contemporaries to the graphic work of contemporary masters such as David Hockney and Damien Hirst. The London Original Print Fair brings together over 40 expert dealers, all of whom have their own stock of wonderful prints which will be for sale at the Fair. All the exhibitors at the Fair are well-known and trusted experts in their own field and will be happy to advise and explain the price structure. The Fair also offers the visitor a chance to look at prints of all kinds and periods and talk to several experts at one time, before deciding whether they would like to begin collecting and what area interests them most.The History of Printmaking  Prints have played an important role in the history of art. Before the invention of photography, it was through engravings that many people were able to become familiar with great works of art which would otherwise have been inaccessible. This tradition of bringing paintings to a wider public dates back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when many artists employed engravers to reproduce their work. Many of the greatest artists themselves made original prints. Rembrandt is a notable example of a painter who was also a highly skilled etcher and produced some of his most memorable images in this medium. The technical discipline of printmaking, the appearance of ink on paper and the ability to create different ‘impressions’ of the same image through different inking, has inspired artists throughout the history of art. Hogarth recreated many of the images from his paintings in engravings; Picasso was a prolific printmaker in the media of etching, lithography and linocut. Some of Matisse’s best known images are his simple lithographs and stencils. Other artists whose important works are shown : Dürer, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Goya, Piranesi, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Whistler, Sickert, Warhol, Freud, Hirst, Hodgkin, Sybil Andrews, and Hockney. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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