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Hand-Painted & Destroyed. Now new processes are beginning to be used for reproductions that fool not only the eye but the sense of touch as well, duplicating both the color and raised brush stroke of oil on canvas. Surrealist Painter Max Ernst, for one, was astonished when technicians in France...
The technique used to reproduce Ernst's painting is called "kamagraphy," and its invention was announced last December by an enterprising Parisian combine headed by Engineer André Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special...
70 Sheets to Fidelity. Dietz's system, perfected over the past 15 years (and patented in 1963), requires the preparation of a canvas, wood panel or paper virtually identical with the one the artist used. He analyzes the order in which the artist applied his original colors, then programs...
...Brad darling, this painting is a MASTERPIECE!" exclaims a luscious blonde in one of Roy Lichtenstein's celebrated "comic strip" canvases of 1962. "My, soon you'll have all of New York clamoring for your work." Pure boasting? At the time, yes. Lichtenstein's first pop paintings were derided as belonging to the "King Features school," and a bad joke. Today, it's all the way to the bank. At 43, Lichtenstein is a pop hero: half a dozen museums own his work, his every show is a sellout, and his prices have jumped tenfold...
Renaissance artists prided themselves on their mastery of perspective, which could make a flat-surfaced painting seem to recede into infinity; cubist painters warped the lines of sight to show several sides of the same object on a flat canvas. Today, younger artists are finding that they need even more...