Artmis Number One Mixed Media By Jerry Di Falco

Year:

Medium:

Mixed Media

Size - (USA):

10 W x 14 H x 0.1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

25.4 W x 35.6 H x 0.3 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Mythology

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

636181

PDF Copy:

Artwork Info Sheet (PDF)

Artwork Description:

This unusual artwork combines the genres of printmaking and painting. I began with an etching that employed three individual plates placed on the printing press bad simultaneously to create on image. This etching was developed in several baths of Nirtic acid and incorporated the three etching techniques of intaglio, aquatint, and drypoint. The print was executed using with black etching ink on RivesBFK white paper. To repeat, the etching uses three separate zinc plates, all lined vertically on the printing press, to create one visual work in a triptych format. My inspiration for this etching was found in a published mystical work by the German scholar and Jesuit priest, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. 1602-1680 entitled, OEDIPUS AEGYPTIACUS now in the collections of The Cornell University Library- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. It features the Goddess Artemis, or the Egyptian Goddess Isis, with the Triple Crown of Creation, entitled in the book as Many breasted Isis. The individual zinc plates each measure four inches wide by three inches high, or 10.1cm x 7.62cm. I enhanced an artist proof of the edition with watercolors and gouache and then trimmed the proof to its edges Next I mounted the painted etching on a piece of fawn-colored Stonehenge paper. This work ships to the buyer without a mat of frame, because this keeps the price low. The watercolors I used were Windsor Newton, as well as the metallic gouache.

Artwork Keywords:   Goddess, Ancient World, Culture, Breasts, Sacred Art, Original Mixed Media

Materials:   Mixed Media