About The Artist:
Janez Bernik
A significant contemporary European artist, Janez Bernik creates paintings that employ both abstract and inorganic language in striking ways. At once formally innovative and emotionally expressive, Bernik's work has a somber, anarchic quality. Janez Bernik's work has been exhibited to wide acclaim from his native Yugoslavia to the Venice Biennale. He holds a chair at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Bernik's revolutionary painting at...
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About The Medium:
Aquatint
An etching process in which tone is created by treating a plate with fine particles of acid resistant material (like powder resin) and then placing the plate in an acid bath. The acid bites into the plate between the grains of resin and when printed, the mass of tiny spots produces a textured area with tonal effects similar to watercolor wash.