Gulf Stream
Stanley William Hayter British
Not on view
Gulf Stream reflects Hayter’s experimentation with unorthodox printmaking materials and processes. In the late 1950s, he began using a felt-tip pen known as the Flo-master to draw fluidly and directly on the plate rather than carving into metal. He also experimented with dripping resin varnish on the plate’s surface, an act that corresponded to his desire to make visible liquids in motion. The pen marks and varnish resisted the acid to which he exposed the plate, but in an uneven way—an effect embraced by Hayter, who, like the Surrealists, loved incorporating elements of chance. He then used hard and soft rollers to deposit inks of different colors and levels of viscosity on the plate and printed them together in one pass.
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