MONOTYPING
Though it has a long tradition, this technique has seldom been executed in this form and rarely practiced with such diversity. Oil paint is applied to the painting surface and immediately – while still moist – transferred by a hydraulic press to paper or canvas. The pressure produces a random distribution of the arbitrarily applied paint. This combination of accident and arbitrariness in the application of unmixed pure colors creates luminously colorful, vibrant paintings. Negative spaces and spaces created by repeated applications of paint and repeated pressings – like the combined use of acrylic painting and oil printing – generates a spatial impression. The relief-like structuring of the dried paint on the painting’s surface augments this dynamic. As the term implies, “monotyping” creates only a single original painting, or at most two paintings that differ like mirror images. more ...