Romeo and Juliet. Monotype

by Valentina Kondrashova

Title

Romeo and Juliet. Monotype

Artist

Valentina Kondrashova

Medium

Painting - Painting

Description

ROMEO AND JULIET. MONOTYPE by VALENTINA KONDRASHOVA.

Belong to the Gallery RUSSIAN ARTISTS NEW WAVE.

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

'My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.'

'For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.'

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to acrylic glass. The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together, usually using a printing-press. Monotypes can also be created by inking an entire surface and then, using brushes or rags, removing ink to create a subtractive image, e.g. creating lights from a field of opaque colour. The inks used may be oil based or water based. With oil based inks, the paper may be dry, in which case the image has more contrast, or the paper may be damp, in which case the image has a 10 percent greater range of tones.
Monotyping produces a unique print, or monotype; most of the ink is removed during the initial pressing. Although subsequent reprintings are sometimes possible, they differ greatly from the first print and are generally considered inferior.

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