About The Artist:
R.B. Kitaj
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to a Viennese mother and Jewish stepfather, Ronald Brooks (R.B.) Kitaj became a noted painter and printmaker whose subjects were realistic and abstract figure and genre. Many of his works were inspired by his political ideas and by reactions to stories he heard from his family about the Nazis during World War II. At an early age, he developed a compassion for persons less fortunate and became dedicated to socialism,...
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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.