About The Artist:
József Jakovits
The artist József Jakovits (1909-94) is little known even in his native Hungary, except in intellectual and artistic circles, where he is hailed as Hungary’s foremost Surrealist sculptor. In the Hungarian National Gallery he is labeled “Post-Surrealist.” Jakovits viewed himself as a Primitivist, declaring his main sources to be “cave painting, the tribal art of primitive peoples, and the archaic periods of the...
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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.