About The Artist:
Doug Webb
Born: 1946, Istanbul, Turkey It is easy to be overawed by the shear technical artistry of Doug Webb's patiently wrought paintings. However, his real artistry goes beyond creating exquisitely photo-surrealistic canvases. It lies rather in using photo-realism to first lull the viewer into rapidly accepting a seemingly familiar landscape or visual icon only to be jarred upon closer examination by its pointed juxtaposition of the impossible. Webb,...
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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.