About The Artist:
Tereza Haass
Tereza (Terry) Haass is born in Cesky Tesin (Czechoslovakia) in 1923. She flees her country and Nazism in the late 30s. She studies art and art history in Paris until her departure for New York in 1941; the young woman receives a scholarship from the Art Students League. She lives in New York until 1951, incorporating (from 1946) the Atelier 17 of Stanley William Hayter, where she works with Will Barnet, Zadkine or Calder. Terry Haass takes the...
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About The Medium:
Aquatint
An etching process in which tone is created by treating a plate with fine particles of acid resistant material (like powder resin) and then placing the plate in an acid bath. The acid bites into the plate between the grains of resin and when printed, the mass of tiny spots produces a textured area with tonal effects similar to watercolor wash.