Group of four Art Déco Pochoir

Age: 20th Century / 1901 - 2000

20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject: Human Figures

Artistic technique: Drawing

Il disegno è il processo di tracciare segni su una superficie tramite l'applicazione di una pressione o il trascinamento di un apposito strumento sulla superficie. Gli strumenti sono: matite in grafite o colorate, penna, pennelli fini con inchiostro, pastelli a cera o carboncini; i supporti tradizionali più frequenti sono carta, cartoncino, tavola, muro, tela, rame, vetro.

Technical specification: Pouchoir

With pouchoir or pochoir is a technique of hand-colouring postcards, illustrated or photographic. The technique consists in the realization, on the basis of the areas of photography or illustration, coloring, stencils, die-cut and shaped on the inside, with a technique, we would say today, similar to the stencil (which probably borrows the name, in French pochoir) and to screen printing. These molds were made, or cardboard waterproofed with wax or with thin sheets of copper or zinc. Once you have created the shapes for each colour you followed this procedure: the shape cut out was placed over the postcard, at this point was spread to a coat of color, spray or brush; in this way, the color adhered to the parts of the postcard, without affecting the other. The effect of coloring created is often a sense of unreality to the stiffness of the colors used and the outlines coloured, often not perfectly superimposed to the contours of the figures represented.