Woodcut and photo-screenprint on paper
Tate Collection
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/michael-rothenstein-1873" aria-label="More by Michael Rothenstein" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Michael Rothenstein</a>
Jags
Presented by the artist through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
architecture
car
emotions, concepts and ideas
environment / nature
fence
lorry
pollution
social comment
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
universal concepts
<p>Michael Rothenstein was the son of the painter Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945), and brother of Sir John, a former Director of the Tate Gallery. He was one of Britain's leading printmakers. After taking up printmaking in 1948 he subsequently worked in all the main techniques. As 'Jags' demonstrates, one of his innovations was to make relief prints from found wooden objects. Here Rothenstein used a section of wooden crate to print the main body of the image. He set a photograph of a car-transporter 'in the gap between the teeth'. Rothenstein's intention was to make a statement about the 'violently broken wood' and the violence which the car does 'to the countryside'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper print woodcut photo-screenprint
Jags
image: 748 × 505 mm
Presented by the artist through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
<p>Michael Rothenstein was the son of the painter Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945), and brother of Sir John, a former Director of the Tate Gallery. He was one of Britain's leading <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>printmakers</span></a>. After taking up printmaking in 1948 he subsequently worked in all the main techniques. As 'Jags' demonstrates, one of his innovations was to make <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/r/relief" title="Glossary definition for 'Relief'"><span>relief</span></a> prints from found wooden objects. Here Rothenstein used a section of wooden crate to print the main body of the image. He set a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> of a car-transporter 'in the gap between the teeth'. Rothenstein's intention was to make a statement about the 'violently broken wood' and the violence which the car does 'to the countryside'.</p>
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2004-09-02T00:00:00
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architecture car emotions, concepts and ideas environment / nature fence lorry pollution social comment society townscapes / man-made features transport: land universal concepts