Analyzing the Painter-Printmaker in terms of Mechanical Reproduction and Expressive Release
Madonna, Edvard Munch, Color lithograph 1895–1902
Seminar Paper; MAY 2016
Abstract: Through the study of my own Lithographic print and the writings and practices of Edvard Munch, I look to understand the Painter-Printmaker’s ideology in relation to critical theorists of the 1930s and 1940s. In essence, I wish to see how the practice of being an artistic printmaker can be at odds with the thoughts and writings of Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction where he argues that mechanically reproduced art leads to a loss of aura - and as a result, fascism. I conclude with a spectrum of my own making in order to solve these questions with commercial art at one end and fine art at the other. In the middle is the Painter-Printmaker with elements of each.
Visualization made during my research.
