Yvon TAILLANDIER - Capitipède rouge, 2015 - Hand signed screen print

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Yvon Taillandier : Born in 1926 in Paris, Yvon Taillandier is a french painter, sculptor et writter. He realized his first solo exhibition at the "Galerie de l'art Français" in Lyon in 1942 and since exhibited through the world (Paris, Lille, Rotterdam, Odessa, New Delhi, Washington...) In the 1950's, Taillandier gave up painting for literature (art critic, art history). He collaborated to the "Connaissance des Arts" and "xxe siècle" journals. He was secretary of the Salon de Mai (May Salon) committee during 44 years. Yvon Taillandier's painting is figurative, constantly narrative and created an imaginary world with its characters and events. Creator of the "Taillandierland", the painter describes this invented world with its inhabitants, his universe. Mixing image and language, Yvon Taillandier calles himself a literary painter.