Description:
Also called "Red with Dante Man"
Label Text:
One of the earliest collaborative experiments by Rauschenberg and the print workshop Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, this work is part of the portfolio of studies made for the artist’s monumental lithograph Booster. The latter was the largest single print made at the time, with a full-size reproduction of an x-ray of Rauschenberg himself. The studies allowed the artist and the printers to explore the techniques needed to realize the work, which intended to translate Rauschenberg’s three-dimensional assemblages into two-dimensional prints. In the end, to combine the “self-portrait” with found images from newspapers and magazines, printers at Gemeni G.E.L. employed silkscreen to photomechanically transfer the reproduced clippings onto printing plates and then produce the final image onto the lithographic stone.
GM, 2019
Subjects:
Lithography Link to share this object record:
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