Harmen Liemburg

Fig. 26

Fig. 26, Z, the last letter of the alfabet.

Contribution to a class project. Screenprinted adaptation of a W. Eugene Smith photograph: Burial at Sea from the U.S.S. Bunker Hill, Marshall Islands Campaign, 1944.

Beauty Lies

Title Beauty Lies
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 10

Overprint of two photographs I found in a Dutch newspaper (authors couldn’t be retreived): portrait of an elderly lady and a young girl.

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Het Mooiste

Title Het Mooiste (The Best… Has Yet To Come)
Year 1997
Size 70 x 100 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 25

Print made for Rietveld Academie schoolproject on collections. Mine was about orange wrapping paper.

To Belong

Title To Belong
Year 1997
Size ± 40 x 60 cm
Technique 2 colour screenprint
Imprint 15

First print made with Kees Maas at Rietveld Academie.

Highway 1

Highway 1
Part of a Rietveld Academie student project, using found graphics (cardboard moving box issued by Allied Movers) as a bookcover.

My Way

My Way (4 spreads out of 8 total)
Part of a Rietveld Academie student project on cowboys. In retrospect this is a key-piece: here I’m discovering that I can use the ‘neutral’ language of (traffic)signs as a vehicle for my own imagination…

Bliksem

Title Bliksem (Lightning)
Year 1995
Size ± 50 x 50 cm
Technique 3 colour screenprint
Imprint 20

My first screenprint EVER, printed at Crea, University of Amsterdam.

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