Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stencil method of printmaking in which a design is imposed on a screen of silk or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance, and ink is forced through the mesh onto the printing surface.
- noun A print made by this method.
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Examples
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Weisman, who was friends with Warhol, commissioned the silk-screen paintings in the late 1970s - a time when Warhol produced hundreds of pieces of work for wealthy patrons able to pay the roughly $25,000 he charged for portraits.
Boing Boing 2009
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I used to run a silk-screen poster business while in university ...
Margaret Atwood creates superhero outfits for Twitter avatars Esther Addley 2010
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Its beauty is one of deep colors and sharp contrasts, ideally suited to the silk-screen technique — known as serigraphy — in which John Russell Clift has chosen to portray it.
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By the time Gerard Malanga arrived at Andy Warhol's studio in 1963 -- accepting a job for $1.25 an hour to help with Warhol's large-scale silk-screen paintings -- the 20-year-old was already an accomplished poet.
Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet 2010
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Its beauty is one of deep colors and sharp contrasts, ideally suited to the silk-screen technique — known as serigraphy — in which John Russell Clift has chosen to portray it.
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Several hundred people are in the stands, and dozens of children, dressed in bright orange T-shirts, with a silk-screen picture of Willie Mays on the back, are lined up on the infield.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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The spouses will get to try the silk-screen printing technique popularized by the late 20th century pop artist and Pittsburgh native, and peruse items pulled from one of more than 600 cardboard "time-capsule" boxes Warhol -- who threw away little -- used to store all kinds of papers, documents and other items.
Michelle Obama Welcomes G-20 Spouses, Hosts Dinner At Teresa Heinz Kerry's Rosemont Farm (PHOTOS) 2010
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In 2006 Hong Kong billionaire Richard Lau paid $17.4 million dollars for a 81 by 61 inch Warhol silk-screen painting of Mao.
John Seed: The Ghosts of Chairman Mao and Andy Warhol Haunt a Hong Kong Art Auction 2010
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The spouses will get to try the silk-screen printing technique popularized by the late 20th century pop artist and Pittsburgh native, and peruse items pulled from one of more than 600 cardboard "time-capsule" boxes Warhol -- who threw away little -- used to store all kinds of papers, documents and other items.
Michelle Obama Welcomes G-20 Spouses, Hosts Dinner At Teresa Heinz Kerry's Rosemont Farm (PHOTOS) 2010
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By the time Gerard Malanga arrived at Andy Warhol's studio in 1963 -- accepting a job for $1.25 an hour to help with Warhol's large-scale silk-screen paintings -- the 20-year-old was already an accomplished poet.
Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet 2010
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