Life Movement by Krishna Reddy

Life Movement by Krishna Reddy

Life Movement

Krishna Reddy

Title

Life Movement

 
Artist

Krishna Reddy

  1925 - 2018 (biography)
Year
1972  
Technique
mixed technique intaglio with etching, aquatint, printed in colors 
Image Size
11 3/4 x 20" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
29 of 75  
Annotations
pencil editioned 
Reference
Sengupta, 128, illustrated pg. 98 (incorrectly dated as '75); Bronx Museum, pg. 70, illus. pg. 41; 
Paper
cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist and ADI Graphics Editions 
Inventory ID
PAMI119 
Price
SOLD
Description

Krishna Reddy commented on this print in Krishna Reddy: A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of Arts, 1981:

"In this plate I tried to realize the maximum effect of pure color juxtaposition by the pointillist and broken color process. To this end I had to develop new ways and means. I superimposed a series of aquatints using coarse to fine rosin and bit the plate several times. By burnishing and scraping away the roughness, I modeled aquatint areas from light to dark as one would normally proceed for printing in black and white, but this time it was to realize variosu intensities and combinations of colors. This was my most successful print at the time for conveying the power and spontaneity of expression, using pointillist and broken colors in printing.

"A row of receding, vertical lines were constructed which proceeded to turn into more and more organic shapes of figures until finally opening up into a fully radiating human figure."