Poster for fall 1970 exhibition of Alma Thomas's Earth and space paintings at Franz Bader Gallery on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, D.C. — ALMA THOMAS «Untitled,» 1970 (
photo mechanical reproduction, 20 × 22 inches).
Not exact matches
For the image, Close employed the four basic colors used in color printing — cyan, magenta, yellow, and black — to recreate the
photo -
mechanical reproduction process, using the airbrush to carefully control the layering of paint.
She transforms a
photo slide into an oil painting and in the
reproduction both of the media are challenged, the original as well as the copy of the original, to refer to Walter Benjamin's book «The Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction» (1936).