The Fine Art of Screen Printing

Expressing oneself was one of the aims that any arthis printing in opposition to the other techniques that
has in its backgrounds. And with such expressionwas used then. His works were mainly designed for
every artist chooses his own ways of conveying histextile printing, but many of them are used now as
thoughts and feelings to the audience.wall papers in addition to textiles prints after changing
One of these ways is the visual arts which are usedsome of their colors.
to portray different works and had a great share inAnother well known artist is Andy Warhol. He is an
different cultures and in different eras as it was oneAmerican painter and filmmaker who was born in
of the very first forms of arts that the human kind1928. He wanted to be unique through the theme he
used whether to add a touch of glamour to his life oruses for his paintings and so he was advised to use a
to register the different events he experiences in hissubject that he loves the most, and that turned out
day to day life.to be soup cans and dollar paintings. He used
Many techniques and methods since the man hasCampbell's soup cans for his paintings as he had them
used these visual arts at the dawn of history havefrequently for his lunch meals. His most expensive
been employed to illustrate the artist thoughts orpainting was sold for 100 million dollars. It is called
ideas and each has its own flare and beauty. One ofEight Elvises as it was a painting of Elvis Presley and
these ways that was appreciated by a lot of artistsit dates back to 1963. He is also well known for his
and had many supporters that even a campaign wasfamous colorful photographic head shots like those of
held to give its techniques when used for art aMarilyn Monroe.
different name than that used in industry is ScreenAnother well known American artist who was born in
Printing. It was at the thirties of the last century1925 and used the same technique for his paintings is
when the term serigraphy was decided to be givenRobert Rauschenberg. He combined sculptor with
to those artistic works which use the Screen Printingpainting in his works creating innovative masterpieces
techniques for their production.that used uncommon materials. His philosophy was to
Many artists used this technique for their paintings.fill the empty area between artistic objects and
One of those first artists was William Morris who waseveryday life objects.
born in 1834 in England. He used wooden blocks for