About The Artist:
Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter was an intelligent and enigmatic artists because he was a realist in an era dominated byAbstract Expressionism. He was good friends with many of the Abstract Expressionists, especially Willem de Kooning, He was also an art critic who wrote for "Art News" and "The Nation". Porter was also a conservationist, activist, and polemicist who opposed nuclear arms, pesticides, urban sprawl, and the Vietnam War. Porter’s art and art...
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About The Medium:
Lithograph
A print created using flat stones or metal plates. The artist creates a lithograph by drawing an image directly onto the printing element using materials like lithograph crayons or special grease pencils. After this, the drawing is transferred from the plate to the paper in multiples. A lithograph will not have dots when examined with a magnifying glass.