Madonna, Lithograph (1902)
by the great Norwegian
Expressionist Edvard Munch. |
Famous
Fine Art Lithographers
Lithography instantly became a popular
medium among painters during the mid-1800s, including Goya, Theodore Gericault
and Eugene Delacroix noted
for his equestrian lithographs. The draftsman Honore Daumier was more
prolific, being one of the first artists to use transfer-lithography,
by which the tusche drawing is made on paper instead of on stone. He proved
a great influence on subsequent exponents like James McNeil Whistler.
Later in the 19th century, the Impressionists Edouard
Manet, Odilon Redon and Edgar
Degas also adopted this print method.
Colour lithographs (chromolithographs,
or oleographs) emerged in the latter half of the century, becoming - in
the hands of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec - a vibrant and striking medium. He
was followed by other Post-Impressionists like Paul
Gauguin, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard.
In the 20th century, the Norwegian Edvard
Munch, and the German
Expressionists like Max
Beckmann and Ernst
Kirchner became avid lithographers, as did the French painters Henri
Matisse, Georges Rouault and Pablo
Picasso. Among modern artists, lithography was utilized by artists
like Andy Warhol, Stow
Wengenroth, Willem de
Kooning, Rockwell Kent, M.C. Escher, Ben Shahn, and Robert Rauschenberg,
who all imbued the medium with great vitality.
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