How To Print In A Kazakhstan Tourist Poster

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1 Masterpiece: Moulin Rouge: La Goulue (the Glutton), 1891 by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Pronounced: Ahn-ree day Too-Loos Lo-trek Keywords: Print, Movement, Lines Grade: 3 rd Grade Month: December/January Activity: AZ Tourism Poster TIME: 1.25 hours Meet the Artist: He was born to a French aristocratic family in At 13, he fractured his right thigh bone and at age 14, the left thigh bone. Due to a medical condition the bones did not heal correctly so his legs stopped growing. His torso, head and arms continued to grow to normal, adult size but his legs remained child-sized. Causing him to grow to only Since he was physically unable to do many activities, he became deeply involved in the art world of Paris and became an important Post- Impressionist painter, illustrator and lithographer. Other Post- Impressionist painters included Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. His work was exciting and elegant and captured many details of the carefree, decadent, and gaudy lifestyle of Parisians during the turn of the century fin de siècle- with brilliant color and movement. He is most known for his printmaking. When the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret opened its doors, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to produce a series of posters of their dancers, singers and entertainers. Throughout his 20-year art career, he created a large collection of paintings, drawings, lithographs and posters. At a 2005 auction in the U.S., one of his early paintings, La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress), sold for a record $22.4 million. Show students photo at end of lesson. Unfortunately, he died at a young age of 37, in 1901 of alcoholism.

2 What is Printmaking? Note to the Volunteers: Use as much of the information below as you see necessary. Printmaking is the process of producing multiple artworks of the same piece from one original surface. In order to do this, the artist selects a surface to create a master plate from which multiple images are to be made. This surface could be wood, linoleum, styrofoam, metal, cardboard, stone or any one of a number of materials. Then the artist prepares the printing plate by cutting, etching or drawing an image onto the plate. Ink is applied (in a variety of ways) and paper is pressed onto the plate either by hand or by way of a hand-run printing press. The finished print is pulled from the plate. There are four main types of modern day printmaking: 1- Relief Printing. This is printing from a raised surface. A simple example of relief printing is a rubber stamp pressed into a stamp pad and pressed onto a piece of paper. Relief printing plates are made from flat sheets of material such as wood, linoleum, metal, styrofoam etc. After drawing a picture on the surface, the artist uses tools to cut away the areas that will not print. A roller - called a brayer - is used to spread ink on the plate. A sheet of paper is placed on top of the plate and the image is transferred by rubbing with the hand or a block of wood, or by being run through a printing press. The completed print is a mirror image of the original plate. 2- Intaglio. This describes prints that are made by cutting the picture into the surface of the printing plate. Using a sharp V-shaped tool - called a burin - the printmaker gouges the lines of an image into the surface of a smooth polished sheet of metal or in some cases a piece of plexiglass. To make a print, ink is pushed into the lines of the design. The surface is then wiped clean so that the only areas with ink are the lines. A sheet of paper which has been soaked in water is then placed on the plate which is run through a printing press. The paper is literally forced into the small lines that have been cut into the plate. A variation of this technique is known as etching. With etching, acids are used to eat into the metal plate. 3- Planography or Lithography. As we have just learned, relief prints are created from a raised surface, and intaglio prints are created from a cut surface. Planography however, is the printing of a flat surface. Lithography is the art of printing from a flat stone (limestone) or metal plate by a method based on the simple fact that grease attracts grease as it repels water. A design or image is drawn on the surface with a greasy material -

3 grease crayon, pencil or ink - and then water and printing ink are applied. The greasy parts absorb the ink and the wet parts do not. Acids are often used with this type of printmaking to etch the stone and prevent grease from traveling where it should not. For example, if a finger is placed on the surface, enough grease is transferred and as such, the fingerprint will attract the ink. Unfortunately, lithography is a printing process which requires the use of proper facilities and materials. Lithography was invented in Its main advantage is the great number of prints that can bepulled. 4- Stencil: Serigraphy. A stencil is a sheet of paper, fabric, plastic, metal or other material with designs cut, perforated or punched from it. Ink is forced through the openings onto the surface (paper, fabric etc.) to be printed. Sometimes called silk screening, serigraphy (seri means silk) is a type of stencil printing. A stencil is fastened to a sheet of silk which is tightly stretched across a wooden frame. Or, an area of the silk is "blocked out" using glue, gum arabic or shellac. The frame is placed against the material to be printed. A squeegee (rubber mounted in wooden handle) is used to push the ink through the open areas onto the material or paper below. Show the students the following Youtube on a modern version of the CanCan. Possible Questions: Is there movement in this print? What person, shape, or thing do you see first? The print we are studying today is of the dancer, Louise Weber, known as the outrageous La Goulue ( The Glutton ), who created the French Can-Can at the Moulin Rouge. Who do you think that man is in the foreground? Does the poster motivate you enough to want to go to the Moulin Rouge and see the dancer? Does it look like posters you would see today advertising movies, music, vacation spots, or sporting events? What is different? What type of music or sounds would you associate with this print? How does it make you feel? What do you like best about it? Least?

4 Activity: AZ Tourism Poster Materials Needed: 9 x12 scratch-foam board, student s own pencil, wooden cuticle sticks, red, blue, yellow, black paints, brayers (art roller with a handle), PVC rolling pins, 9 x12 white construction paper (enough for two print runs per student), paper towels, paper plates, mats to cover desks. Explain activity they have been hired by the AZ Tourism Office to create a poster that will promote visitors and tourists. To do this, students will be designing a template on the scratch-foam and running two prints using one paint color to be applied using the brayer (art roller with a handle). Process: 1. Brainstorm with the students on the natural, historical, and unique attractions of Arizona and how they would market this beautiful state for tourism. For example: the Grand Canyon, the fauna and flora of the Sonoran Desert, the Rim, the unique mountain ranges, the sunsets, clear skies, Spring Training, Tucson, Tombstone, Prescott, Sedona, Flagstaff, etc. Write their ideas on the board. Also, have them think of a simple catchy slogan or phrase to attract interest. 2. Give each student a mat to work on, a scratch-foam board, a brayer, a PVC rolling pin, a wooden cuticle stick, a couple of paper towels, and white construction paper. They will need their own pencil. 3. Using their pencil, have them draw their AZ tourism picture on the scratch-foam board. Remind them to work big and explore the concepts of Impressionism by using different line styles such as short strokes, hatches, dots or points). Remember that Lautrec s lines had a lot of movement in them. 4. When they are satisfied with their general layout, they can use the blunt end of the cuticle stick for wider lines. The lines need to be deep without tearing the scratch-foam. And remember if they are writing words everything will print "backwards" so words need to be written backwards and the letters would need to be reversed as well. They may also add words when the printmaking process is finished. 5. After the students are finished pressing their lines, have them choose a paint color. Squeeze some paint onto the scratch-foam. Use enough paint so it can cover the foam in an even layer. Have student spread the paint smooth with the brayer or wide paint brush so there is an even layer completely coating the foam. ***Remind them that what they don t paint

5 will not transfer onto the paper and they must work quickly on this step so the paint doesn t dry. 6. Quickly lay the white construction paper on top of the inked foam print block and smooth the paper out using the PVC rolling pin. Now carefully pull the paper back from one end and lay it out to dry. 7. Repeat Step #6 for their second run. 8. If they didn t add their slogan or words as described in #5, they may do so at this point. Have the student sign their name in the bottom corner!

6 Photograph of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and other Works Self Portrait

7 Lautrec Marcelle Lender, 1895 Jane Avril at the Moulin Rouge La Blanchisseuse The Laundress