Module 2, chapter 13


Picture 91 shows the Holbein stitch. You can see the technic of this stitch. Piczure 92 is a sampler from this stitch.

Hans Holbein the Younger was born in Augsburg in Germany and travelled in 1526 to England. His pictures of Anne Boleyn are world famous. He produced not only portraits but also designs for juwellery and otther precious opbjects. On his paintings you can see the exact reproduction of the beautiful stitching dresses.(93)
Blackwork is marked by tendernes and retention. The English poet Chaucer mentioned this technic in his Canterbury Tales. Also Catharina Aragon made the blackwork popular at her time.

Image 94 is  an example of black work.

Bridget Riley was born 1931 in EnglandIn 1960 she worked in black and white and she envolved a style in which she explored that two dynamic dimensional effects appear as three dimensional. She belonged to the Op-Art artists. The Op-Art style followed the Pap-Art style.

 The dynamic impressen results by using lines which run from thick to thin in geometric order by using contrasting colours.

Our own choose artist is Victor Vasarely. He was born in 1906 in Hungary. He lived the most time of his life in France. He worked as a grafic artist. He developed the geometric abstract art.  He worked with optical, dynamic, moving impressions. With this technic he produced optical illusions. His designs with lines make the impression of animal fur patterns.
The whole module based on playing with black and white lines to make two and three dimensional patterns like Vasarely and Riley.