2015 TASIS Spring Arts Festival - May 21-24
Intaglio Printing
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Self-portrait - Engraving
Students in art have been making prints using the intaglio technique.
Intaglio is the family of printing and printmaking in which the image is incised or engraved into a surface and the incised line holds the ink. Prints are made when the surface (or plate) is inked and then placed on paper and heavy pressure applied, for example when passed between rollers or placed under a press.
Albrecht Durer "Knight, Death and the Devil" 1513 - Copperplate Engraving
Traditionally, the surface incised, or cut into is made of metal, for example copper. However, students at TASIS have been experimenting with a malleable plastic material, which is easier to incise, while still giving fine print results.
Many artists have used the this printing technique down through the centuries. Albrecht Durer the master renaissance artist, took the technique to new heights. It remains a popular and very direct technique, and today is often used in the world of graphics for illustrations.
View a gallery of the printmaking in the TASIS classroom below. These prints and other artwork will be on display in the upcoming Arts Festival held on May 22-24 on the TASIS campus.
IB Visual Arts Final Show
For the past five days the second year IB students (and faculty) have been feverishly working to finish the IB Visual Arts show and the required second-year student interviews. The show took place in the Palestrina for the first time, and with close to 30 IB Visual Arts students (painting/drawing, photography and architecture), it was wonderful to have a large space for the exhibition. Photos from the past few days are included below. Click on the images below to view them full screen.
IB Visual Arts Final Show
Don't miss seeing the results of two years of hard work by the IB Visual Arts students!
TASIS Students visit Robert Capa Exhibition
TASIS photography students and faculty visited the Photographica FineArt exhibition which included a selection of vintage Robert Capa photographs. The exhibition "War Stories" tells, through Capa's eyes, wars and international tensions that took place from 1936 to 1954.
(From the gallery website) "Photographica FineArt Gallery was founded in 2009 by Marco Antonetto, to create an exhibition space intended solely to the photographic image as a means of artistic expression. The gallery alternates exhibitions of the great masters of photography and promising young and sometimes compares the work of each other in order to try to form the collector or simple visitor a concept of photographic aesthetics."
Earlier this term TASIS photography students were able to view the Sebastião Salgado's Genesis exhibition in Milan and also a small, but impressive Werner Bischof exhibition in Chiasso.
Robert Capa photographs on display in Lugano.
The Fine Art Faculty Art Exhibition
This exhibition will be up for February and March in the Horst Durrschmidt Gallery found in the Ferit Sahenk Arts Center.
