He She Berlin Cabaret 1929 Printmaking By Jerry Di Falco

Year:

Medium:

Etching Print

Size - (USA):

11 W x 14 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

27.9 W x 35.6 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

History

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

614469

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Artwork Description:

TTHE PRICE OF THIS ETCHING INCLUDES A BLACK PAINTED WOOD FRAME WITH GLASS AND ACID FREE MAT. THE FRAME MEASURES 14 INCHES HIGH BY 11 INCHES WIDE. THE WHITE MAT CONTAINS A BLACK INNER TRIMMED EDGE. THE ARTWORK ARRIVES WIRED AND READY TO HANG ON YOUR WALL, AND A WALL HOOK AND NAIL ARE INCLUDED. This etching was hand printed by the artist at The Center for Works on Paper in Philadelphia, which is part of Fleisher Art Memorial’s OPEN STUDIO IN PRINTMAKING. The work was executed on a zinc plate and incorporates the studio techniques of Intaglio, Chine colle, and Aquatint. Five separate baths in Nitric acid and water were used to achieve the desired image, which was inspired by a 1929 photograph of Wilheim Bendow, a performance artist in German cabaret. This work celebrates the German form of Performing Arts in the 1920s and early 1930s called CABARET, a form of music theater on Europe s cutting edge of the Avant Garde. CABARET coincided with German Expressionist movements in Visual Art, Literature, and Film and was also a place where both class and gender roles were explored via satire. The image size corresponds to the etching plate’s size of six inches wide by nine inches high or 15.240cm by 22.860 cm. Media include RivesBFK white paper, oil base etching ink, red and dyed mulberry bark paper from Thailand. Framed work is 11 inches wide by 14 inches high. Keywords include transvestite, window, cabaret, Berlin, Intaglio, Germany, transsexual, gay, Christopher Isherwood, history, lesbian, Transgendered, transvestite, cross dressing, avant garde, El Dorado Cabaret.

Artwork Keywords:   Original Printmaking

Materials:   Etching Prints