Musée de la Lithographie
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Because of
its various kinds of procedures lithography makes artists possible to use it
in different branches of employment, provided there is a basic connection between
the artist and the lithograph. The
lithographic stone stays natural that’s why it is diaphanous for water. It is
a limestone with fine stratum whose consistence can be rub off slightly to
amplify surface, accordant smooth or raw. The artist plot his artwork the
other way round with the help of an adipoid pencel or ink filled in a fether
or dipped in a paint brush. On the finished graph a solution of nitric acid
must be drawn and covered by arabic gum to get fixed. Afterwards the lime
stone gets washed whereat the undrawn fields don’t corrode. Thereafter the
graph gets pulled through the press cylinder where the humid pressing doesn’t
affect the ink because of the adipoid bed. |
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«Chromolithography »
means that one colour is used for one stone to arise the impression of the
« superposition »(bed-structure) which is based on a well-drawn
graph. After having placed the sheet on a stone the lithographic machine
rolls through a hard pressing screen. The drawing gets copied side-inverted
on a blank sheet. |
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The stone
gets rub off at the end of the
procedure in case of limited pull-offs are needed. So there is free space for
a new drawing. The lithographic sheets are numbered, signed and supplied by a
certificate of authenticity. The artworks actually are artificial copies
excluded the ones which are used by the artist for commercial reasons. |
Musée de la
Lithographie – 21, rue Camille Desmoulins – 59116 Houplines
03 20 30 62 34
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