Cabaret Four Printmaking By Jerry Di Falco

Year:

Medium:

Etching Print

Size - (USA):

9 W x 12 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

22.9 W x 30.5 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Architecture

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

616440

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Artwork Info Sheet (PDF)

Artwork Description:

THE PRICE OF THIS ETCHING INCLUDES A GOLD PAINTED WOOD FRAME WITH GLASS AND ACID FREE MAT. THE FRAME MEASURES 12 INCHES HIGH BY 9 INCHES WIDE. THE WHITE MAT CONTAINS A METALLIC GOLD INNER TRIMMED EDGE. THE ARTWORK ARRIVES WIRED AND READY TO HANG ON YOUR WALL. A WALL HOOK AND NAIL ARE ALSO INCLUDED. The artist employed several studio techniques in this etching, including aquatint, intaglio, drypoint, and Chine Colle. It is entitled “KABARETT FOUR” and belongs to Di Falco’s TEARS FOR BERLIN series -- a collection devoted to The German Cabaret Art Movement from 1917 to 1933. It was executed on a zinc etching plate that measured four inches wide by five inches high, or 10.160cm by 12.700cm, and framed work is 12 inches by 9 inches. This etching is part of a portfolio of FIVE EDITIONS with each individual edition limited to only five prints. This work, from the fourth EDITION, is executed in French oil base etching inks and printed on STONEHENGE cream colored paper. A Thai mulberry bark paper, infused with Japanese Kozo threads, treated with methyl cellulose was used in the Chine colle collections. This work was printed and published by the artist at the Center for Works on Paper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on The Fleisher Art Campus, which is an art school for students and professional artists. The theme surrounds an architectural detail of a cabaret called The Europahaus, located on Stresemannstraße in Berlin, one of hundreds of cabarets in the city dating from 1931. The photographic image DiFalco used, as a study for several original drawings before the etching was executed, originated from The Digital Picture Archives of the Federal Archives or Bundesarchiv. Berlin was the central location in the 1930s for avant-garde and Dadaist performance art. The political satire inherent in the scripts added an artistic edge to the entertainment and theatrical aspects of CABARET. Many artists from the USA, including Josephine Baker, flocked to Berlin to participate in this historic art movement. When the National Socialists came to power, the world of gay nightlife and cabaret ended quickly.

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