#body print

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peng chang for vogue taiwan august 2022

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Temporary Project - Secondary Research (18/10/22)

Yesterday i did a workshop on printmaking. Following on from that I am looking at body printing this week. Body printing is a temporal performance art that captures a portrait of the body at that moment in time (temprary)

One body print artist that I am inspired by is Elizabeth Walden. Walden, inspired by David Hammons (another body print artist I will look into) started body printing in 2013. She puts vegetable oil mixed with pigments on her body, makes a print, then she uses that print as a basis or a landmark for her landscape artworks.

(Images credit: www.elizabethwalden.com)

By nature some of her artworks are abstract or semi-representational .

I love Walden's use of colour and layering through printing. I can't wait to start creating body prints like these this week!

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Bruce W. Talamon, David Hammons Creating a Body Print at Slauson Studio, 1974

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David Hammons at The Drawing Center

The US flag is shelter and garment for the individual depicted in this 1969 body print/screenprint by David Hammons, now on view in a powerful show of Hammons' meticulous body prints at the Drawing Center. Made by applying oil to his skin, pressing his body to paper and applying powdered pigments, the print is one of many that incorporate the US flag to question its meaning for Black communities. (On view in SoHo through May 23rd. Appointments, masks and social distancing required. Admission charges waived). David Hammons, Pray for America, screenprint and pigment on paper, 1969.

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print available on etsy! 

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David Hammons Body Prints 1970s

David Hammons executed his “body prints” by smearing margarine or other grease on his skin, clothes, and hair, pressing himself against a large sheet of paper, and then dusting the oily imprint with ground pigment.

Images via: W Magazine