Pissarra
Antonio Tàpies
1972
- Medium
- Etching and carborundum technique in black, ochre and white inks, on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 58.8 × 77.6 cm (23 3/16 × 30 9/16 in.)
- Genre
- intaglio
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingintagliopaper (fiber product)
About
Instead of laboriously using a hand-held rocker to create texture, Antoni Tàpies applied a carborundum paste over this large plate, its unevenness helping achieve the rugged, blackboard-like look he desired. The resulting abrasion on the plate collects a saturated ink film commensurate to the backgrounds of Tàpies’s related paintings, similarly filled with cryptic texts and impasto textures.
