About The Artist:
John Wesley
Although he was part of the original group of POP Artists and was included in the three Pop Art Print Portfolios, Wesley, a native Callifornian, has been slow to gain the recognition he deserves. In POP ART: A Continuing History, Marco Livingstone notes that Wesley used a "straightforward linear technique associated with such non-art sources as cartoons, comics and coloring books" (82-83) and used "gentle humor . . . framing devices, symmetry,...
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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.