About The Artist:
Manabu Mabe
He was born on September 14, 1924, in Takara, a village within Shiranui, District of Udo, Province of Kumamoto, currently named city of Shiranui. The family Mabe, by tradition, was the owner of a lodging site destined to people arriving by vessel from Shimabara and Misumi. His father’s name was Soichi Mabe, who first worked in Japan as a railroad employee and afterwards as a barber. His mother’s name was Haru. She descended from a...
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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.