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Cheekwood Presents Exhibition of British & American Screen Prints

NASHVILLE,TN.- In the late 1960s, screen printing rose beyond its use in the industrial realm when artists adopted the machine to make art. Intrigued by the widespread impact screen printing had on popular culture, the aesthetic contributed to perceptual abstractions and color optics that pioneered Pop Art. Artists in the United States and Great Britain were at the forefront of developing screen printing as an art forum. The exhibition is on view from July 9 through October 2 at Cheekwood. Joseph Albers was a member of the German Bauhaus group before immigrating to the United States. He was very interested in precision and craft, and the screen printing process allowed him to create his series Homage to the Square. R.B. Kitaj was drawn to the spontaneity of the medium to combine different images from art, literature, and history. Eduardo Paolozzi, an Italian artist who worked in England, inserted his own sense of humor int