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It is always a glad day when one
stumbles upon a fragment of
knowledge or an obscure personality
that livens the spirit and
pnrirhps tht> minrl Manu unat-c
back, when I first saw the prints
and drawings of William Blake, 1
was completely beside myself; a
chance meeting that totally
revamped my notions of art and
personality. Such was nearly the
effect when Emanuel Swedenborg's
Heaven and Hell popped
before my eyes, or when I suddenly
discovered that Rossetti and
Burne-Jones were simply two
artists of a relatively large (and
illuminating) movement, preraphaelism.
It's odd to think that after years
of concentration, in whatever your
area of study is, that obscure or
simply neglected facts suddenly
appear before you. This is, of
course, the joy of learning, and its
effect is one of a revitalizing drive
to seek and discover all that
stimulates and expands your
character.
Such was the case when I entered
a new show at McKissick
Museums entitled, Pochoir. My
first question: What is Pochoir?
Pochoir, I discovered, is a
stencil-printing process that
flourished during the late 19th
century in France. It involves the
cutting of stencil images upon thin
sheets of plastic, metal or heavily
waxed paper. A water-based ink is
then dabbed, brushed or sponged
through the stencil with a short
wide brush called a pompon. The
effect is a printing process that is
not only strikingly rich, but one
that often retains a wonderful
painterly quality due to its extensive
textural range.
Pochoir began as a method of
adding color to black-and-white
reproductions, or reproducing
copies of other colored images,
such as paintings. The latter involved
the cutting of numerous
stencils, each of which
corresponded to a specific color.
Generally, twenty to thirty colors
would be applied over the blackand-white
reproductions, but
examples exist in which a
staggering 250 stencils were
utilized.
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pochoir were also developed, such
as wallpaper designs, art cards
and book illustrations. Such
adaptiveness, combined with the
social consciousness of bringing
art to the people (personified in the
French movement of the day. Art
Nouveau) makes it clear how such
a process would be heartily embraced
by the artists.
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is pochoir?
All of the examples we've
discussed here can be seen in the
McKissick show, which was
organized by the National Museum
of History and Technology and
circulated by the Smithsonian
Institution.
The exhibit begins in the
museums main gallery, with
examples from the only text j
written on the subject, Jean
Saude's Traite d'enluminure d art ?
an pochoir. Also included by Saude
is a wonderful watercolor pochoir
of Rodin's Esquisse.
Wallpaper designs and
corresponding stencils by A.
Charayron display how pochoir,
even when reduced to the level of
simple pattern, retains a magical
sense of the human touch. All of
this, at least in my book, confirms
the special sensitivity of pochoir
over its newfangled successor,
serigraphy.
In Enrico Sacchetti's brightly
colored Robes et femmes, the
pochoir virtually carries the entire
image, with only the faintest litho
lines accenting the lighter areas.
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