Alan Thornton - 艺术家和摄影师

Alan Thornton 的作品通过丝网印刷将他的原创摄影作品转化为限量版的非凡艺术版画。 Alan 居住在东伦敦的斯皮塔菲尔德,他使用摄影、图像制作和丝网印刷来探索和表达他对精细汽车工程的热情。

艾伦十几岁时对摄影的痴迷将他推入了暗房,在那里他享受了物理操作和增强照片的机会。 Alan 以第一名的成绩毕业于索尔兹伯里艺术学院,是使用数字工具和技术的早期采用者和创新者,将它们应用于静态和动态图像。他的作品受到从美术绘画和电影制作以及创造性的暗房技能中汲取的各种不拘一格的影响。艾伦厌倦了数字捕捉、操作和打印带来的轻松和缺乏纪律,他开始寻找一种媒介,使他能够综合他所开发的技术,并将注意力集中在他的工作中。

Alan Thornton - 艺术家和摄影师

艾伦顿悟了,他意识到丝网印刷促进了他的想法、技能和技术的完美结合。艾伦早期的丝网印刷品暴露了他对工业设计和功能的潜在痴迷,以及我们所有人与无生命物体的关系。作为一名商业摄影师工作了几十年,他反思了摄影师与他们的相机建立的亲密关系——感觉、纹理和细节。他对丝网印刷的使用使他的第一个主要作品中的摄影工具栩栩如生。艾伦对这些“摄影”版画的细节关注延伸到使用金属银墨水来增加深度,同时也参考了模拟摄影的基础技术——卤化银。

他对形式、功能和美感的痴迷现在使他以另一种长期的热情——汽车工作。这些版画在本质上精确而技术化,将主题隔离开来,将图像置于艾伦标志性的金属背景上,将观众的注意力集中在标志性汽车和飞机的雕塑、有机品质上。正是这些品质让他引起了 Amalgam 创始人 Sandy Copeman 的注意,2022 年,Amalgam 和 Alan 宣布推出标志性汽车的大幅面精美丝网印刷艺术印刷品系列中的第一款。

丝网印刷工艺

最简单形式的丝网印刷是使用丝网、油墨和刮刀将模板印刷的艺术品转移到平面上的过程。艾伦的作品将媒介带到了一个非常特别的地方。从摄影开始,他精确地构图和照亮主题,总是仔细考虑中间过程和他对最终照片的看法。在后期制作中,他精炼图像并对其进行操作,以创建每种颜色所需的色调变化。然后这些是半色调,通过使用大小或间距不同的点或线来模拟连续色调的图像。对于每种颜色,正醋酸盐被转移到丝印框架上,并涂有感光乳剂。在曝光、冲洗和干燥之后,将框架安装到印刷床上,然后用刮刀将手工混合的墨水通过网眼压到档案质量的纸张上。这是一个高度熟练的过程,对打印机的触感、感觉和技术非常敏感,因此每张打印件都是真正独一无二的。艾伦的方法使用他手工混合的“专色”来代表主题汽车的基本颜色,通常包括贵金属箔和金属墨水。正是这种印刷风格的艺术应用,使他的版画独特的生动和迷人。

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半色调工艺

这是一种通过使用网点来模拟连续色调图像的复制技术,从而产生类似渐变的效果。艾伦的半色调艺术作品将他传统的丝网印刷手法带入了当代数字世界。油墨被直接应用于拉丝铝复合板上,然后通过紫外线固化,使其与基底表面结合,最终形成一件耐用且持久的艺术作品,甚至可以在户外展览中展示。这种方法开辟了无数种方式,通过多层构建图像来增加质感和深度,这与丝网印刷过程非常相似。完成后的图像是防水的,并且非常耐磨,所以无需用玻璃来保护这件艺术品。这件作品可以无框悬挂,让艺术品距离墙面不到一英寸(15毫米)悬空展示,呈现出一种简洁而简约的效果。如果需要的话,这件作品也可以采用传统的装框方式进行悬挂。艾伦在这种媒介上的创作,为最终的艺术作品带来了非凡的精准度、强烈的视觉冲击力和独特的魅力。

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艾伦桑顿美术版画

我们很自豪也很高兴能与 Alan 合作,肩负共同的使命,捕捉最美丽和标志性汽车的精髓,并将其转化为极其美丽的美术印刷品。 我们已经吸引了汽车设计领域一些重要人物的注意,我们知道收藏家很快就会认识到艾伦为其作品带来的精湛工艺和深厚的艺术性。 拥有如此真正迷人且引人入胜的作品,它们的价值肯定会稳步上升。

从莲花 72D 宏伟的 1 米 x 1.5 米(3 英尺 x 4.5 英尺)限量版艺术印刷品(每幅均由两届一级方程式世界冠军 Emerson Fittipaldi 亲自签名)到阿斯顿·马丁 DB5 的 ChromaLuxe® 印刷品 和 Valkyrie,我们觉得艾伦的艺术,就像我们的模型一样,是真正永恒的。

系列的未来

Alan Thornton 艺术丝印版画 - 幕后花絮

Alan 的艺术痴迷与 Amalgam 的完美契合。几个重要的汽车品牌合作正在进行中,并且该系列将迅速增长。除了一系列正在筹备中的经典标志外,我们最重要的品牌合作伙伴之一的首席设计师立即认识到 Alan 作品的价值和美感,因此已经开始合作,以捕捉他们最具异国情调的超级跑车和标志性经典。

 

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