Mauricio Lasansky was an Argentinian artist that came to the US in the early to mid 20th c because of conflicts in Argentinia at the time. He settled into a backroom studio at the University of Iowa, and quickly grew the program from 5 to over 100 students in one semester. The next year, he had staff and multiple printing studios working for student use.
Printmaking is a technology that has been used for centuries to publish images in printed works. But, as each process became obsolete in commercial uses, artists picked up the technology as a new way to make images. At the time Lasansky was tasked with creating a department printmaking was merely a small reclusive hobby endeavor. But, Lasansky brought the medium to the forefront of the American art movements, inspiring artists like Warhol, Jaspar Johns, Franks Sella, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, etc...
In a documentary that I was watching on YouTube, he was constantly seen with a pipe.
This reminded me of my undergrad Printmaking professor, in that printing gives you lots of time to stop and reflect between processes, solving creative problems as they arise, and just downtime after long hours in the studio,
Lasansky is best known for his Nazi series... But, my favorites are... Quetzalcoatl, Which depicts the form with mere shapes and textures, with the only lines being a few on the face.
He also did many depictions of Einstein in intaglio process.
He also created many prints of other pipesmokers...
Any ways, being the forum for all things pipesmoking, I just wanted to share that with you guys. Check out the video above if art is something that you are interested in, or if you are curious about this printmaking stuff.
Printmaking is a technology that has been used for centuries to publish images in printed works. But, as each process became obsolete in commercial uses, artists picked up the technology as a new way to make images. At the time Lasansky was tasked with creating a department printmaking was merely a small reclusive hobby endeavor. But, Lasansky brought the medium to the forefront of the American art movements, inspiring artists like Warhol, Jaspar Johns, Franks Sella, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, etc...
In a documentary that I was watching on YouTube, he was constantly seen with a pipe.
This reminded me of my undergrad Printmaking professor, in that printing gives you lots of time to stop and reflect between processes, solving creative problems as they arise, and just downtime after long hours in the studio,
Lasansky is best known for his Nazi series... But, my favorites are... Quetzalcoatl, Which depicts the form with mere shapes and textures, with the only lines being a few on the face.
He also did many depictions of Einstein in intaglio process.
He also created many prints of other pipesmokers...
Any ways, being the forum for all things pipesmoking, I just wanted to share that with you guys. Check out the video above if art is something that you are interested in, or if you are curious about this printmaking stuff.
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