Screenprint

Screen-printing was first developed in the UK in the 1920s. However, it did not become widely used until the 1960s, when Pop Art had its debut with Andy Warhol. The process is a complex one in which the artist prepares a silk or nylon screen, and blocks out the areas where the paper is to be left blank. Thus the ink reaches the paper only through the areas that are to make up the image. The most common way to prepare the screen is with a photographic emulsion; the artist treats the screen with a light-sensitive film, this lets them reproduce the image almost photographically on the screen. The ink is carefully pushed through the screen onto the paper.