The fine art form of screen printing, where ink is forced through a mesh screen onto paper or canvas to create prints. Stencils or photo-emulsion block certain areas to create the desired image.
From Latin 'sericum' (silk) and Greek 'graphein' (to write), coined in the 1930s to distinguish artistic screen printing from commercial applications. The term elevates the industrial process to fine art status.
Andy Warhol transformed serigraphy from a commercial technique into the defining medium of Pop Art, using it to comment on mass production and celebrity culture! The technique's ability to produce identical multiples perfectly matched his artistic philosophy about art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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