Escape artist.(Al Held, prints)

From: Arts & Activities | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Way back when, spit--yes, saliva--was used to make art. Something so mundane as saliva, when used properly, could create beautiful and poetic effects in printmaking. The work to your left is a "spit bite" aquatint, and the artist, Al Held (1928-2005), might have liked the idea that the name of the technique both says, and doesn't say, how the piece was made.

Certainly Held did not first spit upon and then bite into this work, but the name of the process might conjure some very odd ideas in the mind of someone hearing the name of this technique for the first time. The ...

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