About The Artist:
Jean-Marie Haessle
The artist Jean-Marie Haessle was born in Alsace in Eastern France. It is a region that was contested between France and Germany for centuries. From his early childhood Haessle remembers the American bomber planes flying over the home of his parents. Nothing indicated that Haessle should become an artist. Except for a grand-uncle who had painted frescoes in a church, nobody in his family had any connections to art.When Haessle was fourteen years...
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About The Medium:
Screenprint
A stencil process employing a frame on which silk or synthetic fabric is stretched. Stencils are hand-drawn or hand-cut and placed on the stretched fabric and act as a block out when the ink passes through the screen by means of a squeegee onto the paper, the non-stencil areas create the image. Also known as silkscreen or serigraph.