silkscreen

[ silk-skreen ]

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noun

Also called silkscreen process. a printmaking technique in which a mesh cloth is stretched over a heavy wooden frame and the design, painted on the screen by tusche or affixed by stencil, is printed by having a squeegee force color through the pores of the material in areas not blocked out by a glue sizing.
a print made by this technique.

verb (used with object)

to print by silkscreen.

adjective

of, made by, or printed with silkscreen.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of silkscreen¹

First recorded in 1940–45; silk + screen

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Local police at the time said thieves took four silkscreen prints from the MPV Gallery in the North Brabant province and fled by car.

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Kent is depicted twice on the cover — once in her religious garb and also in an understated black outfit surrounded by her colorful silkscreen prints.

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The thieves originally took four silkscreens from Warhol's Reigning Queens series but abandoned two nearby, the gallery owner told Dutch broadcaster NOS.

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The blood-red hue of a small, 1974 silkscreen version in vermilion, installed with four drawings in a side gallery, evokes engorgement and violence.

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And the snarling attack dogs recall the shocking Birmingham news photographs, taken by Charles Moore, that Andy Warhol turned into silkscreens to make his “Race Riot” paintings.

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Silk Road silk-screen printing

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