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Litografía de Senefelder (1819)

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Alois Senefelder – Scientist of the Day

Alois Senefelder, a German actor and playwright, was born Nov. 6, 1771.

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Bleh. So, I wrote two blog posts yesterday, yet still it took me this long to get this blog post done for my school. I don’t why this is happening, it’s really dumb. I should just get all my school projects done at the beginning of the week before doing other projects like the Van Gogh or Lenten projects.

Why???

So, this week, I wrapped up more print works. I realized that in my blog post last week, I talked about the prints I’ve been preserving, but not anything about the history of lithographs, prints, or anything like that. I figured, since I got caught up in all my other classes, that this would be as good of any time to do this.

Even though printing has been around for centuries and believed to have originated from Ancient China with the earliest known print piece found in Shaanxi, China created back in 618-907.(1) This was a woodblock printing. More famously, in Germany, Johann Gutenburg invented a complex typing printing machine in 1455. I actually remember as a small child doing a presentation on Johann Gutenburg. As interesting as Gutenburg’s invention was, Alois Senefelder’s story was moving.

Alois Senefelder, also from Germany, was an artist who lost his funding and support after

Alois Senefelder (1771-1834)

his father’s death. He tried, with no success, to gain a living as an actor, then he finally got a job in a printing workshop. He worked hard on a play he wrote and, again, found little success in getting it published. At this time, printing plates were very expensive, so he tried to make his own printing blocks to publish the play himself with little success.

It just so happened that he was writing his laundry list on a piece of paper on a lithograph stone, but when he looked under his list, he found the impression and discovered that by continuing to etch on the stone he could create a new, much cheaper form of printing. Finally, after failing again and again, he found a way to not only publish his own play on much less expensive level, but was asked to teach lithograph printing to musicians and other people seeking to print their works for a much cheaper price.

Yes. This man is my new hero.

Now, here are the things I wrapped up today:

  Above are prints of animals, but the prints here below are a little closer to home. According to the information page in the Old Days portfolio, these were a series of prints that were made in the 1980’s during Willamette River crisis and the prints inside were reimaginings of the wilderness before it was inhabited by humans.

(1)Pan, Jixing. “On the Origin of Printing in the Light of New Archaeological Discoveries,” in Chinese Science Bulletin, 1997, Vol. 42, No. 12: 976–981. ISSN 1001-6538. Pages 979–980.

ArH Internship Week 9: A Brief History on Printing Bleh. So, I wrote two blog posts yesterday, yet still it took me this long to get this blog post done for my school.

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...was born in Prague, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), on November 6, 1771, the son of an actor. He studied at Munich, where his diligence earned him a scholarship to study law at Ingolstadt. The death of his father in 1791 forced him to leave school in order to help support his mother and seven siblings. He took up the writing of plays but was unable to have them published because he did not have enough money to pay for their engraving. He decided, therefore, to do the engraving himself, and bought the copper plates on which to do so. The results were not encouraging, but Senefelder refused to give up. One day in 1796, Senefelder happened to use a grease pencil to note down a laundry list on a slab of limestone. At first he thought that if he etched away the surface of the surrounding stone the markings would stand out in relief. This idea eventually resulted in his inventing the technique of lithography."

http://www.robinsonlibrary.com/finearts/print/lithography/senefelder.htm

http://www.badische-zeitung.de/bildung-wissen-1/geistesblitze-der-steindrucker--17212720.html

...his book:

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1818176W/Senefelder_on_lithography

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Pameran Litografi Mahasiswa Seni Murni IKJ di Lorong Cinta Art Space

Setelah beberapa waktu lalu melakukan kunjungan dan workshop Litografi di FSRD ITB,  pada hari Kamis tanggal 6 Oktober 2011 mahasiswa Seni Murni IKJ menggelar pameran Litografi di Lorong Cinta Art Space, Institut Kesenian Jakarta, sampai dengan tanggal 20 Oktober 2011. Kunjungan ke Bandung tersebut diadakan dua kali. Pada kunjungan pertama, selain ke FSRD ITB, rombongan dari Seni Murni IKJ yang terdiri dari alumni, mahasiswa dan pengajar juga berkunjung  ke studio Bapak Srihadi Soedarsono, salah satu seniman senior Indonesia. Pada kunjungan kedua, workshop Litografi ini dilaksanakan dan diikuti oleh 14 orang peserta, selama lima hari.

Karya Litografi yang dipamerkan berjumlah 20 karya, setelah sebelumnya diadakan seleksi terhadap karya hasil workshop dengan berjumlah lebih dari 25 karya. Selain karya Litografi, di Lorong Cinta Art Space juga terpajang sebuah Lhitographyc Limestone (batu yang di jadikan matrix/pelat pada teknik litografi) berukuran 65x50 cm, dengan ketebalan 9 cm diletakan diatas sebuah meja, beralaskan kain hitam. Tidak ada tema khusus dalam pameran ini. Saya masih melihat pameran ini sebagai sebuah publikasi, katakanlah seperti itu, terhadap apa yang telah dipelajari mengenai teknik cetak datar tersebut. Subject matter pada setiap karya sangat beragam, tidak terikat pada apapun selain kehendak pribadi untuk menorehkan gambar pada batu Lhitographyc Limestone tersebut. Terlihat beberapa gambaran figur sangat mendominasi karya-karya yang dipamerkan. Sebagian lagi mencoba bermain-main dengan teks, adapun sedikit diantaranya lebih memilih menampilkan karya dekoratif serta portrait pribadi.

Litografi (dalam bahasa inggris: Lithography) atau cetak datar merupakan salah satu dari empat macam teknik dasar dalam seni grafis, selain Relief print / cetak tingi, Serigrafi / cetak saring dan Intaglio / cetak dalam. Teknik ini diciptakan pada tahun 1796 oleh seorang penulis Jerman, Alois Senefelder. Di Indonesia sendiri, teknik ini masih jarang digunakan oleh para seniman grafis, alasan utamanya ialah karena peralatan cetak utamanya yaitu mesin cetak litografi sangat jarang dan hanya terdapat di studio Seni grafis FSRD ITB. Prinsip dasar dalam proses cetak teknik litografi ialah sifat minyak dan air yang tidak bisa menyatu. Teknik ini juga memiliki kemampuan menghadirkan gambaran yang lebih detail dari teknik seni grafis lainnya.

Contoh karya Litografi karya Charles Marion Russell, berjudul The Custer Fight (1903), memperlihatkan irama warna yang semakin memudar ke arah tepi karyanya.

Sumber gambar: koleksi pribadi dan wikipedia.org

–Asep Topan, 11 Oktober 2011.