Pere Jou I Francisco

Place: Barcelona

Born: 1920

Death: 1998

Biography:

Pere Jou i Francisco was a Spanish artist born in Barcelona in 1920 and died in 1998. He was a sculptor who created the work 'Sitges Allegory' in 1954. He was part of the European printmaking movement in the 20th century, which sought to integrate art into society through a greater interrelation between artist and spectator. The most commonly used graphic methods were woodcut, lithography, etching and silkscreen printing, and new techniques such as color aquatint were developed. The offset printing also emerged, which revolutionized graphic art. Offset is a process similar to lithography, consisting of applying an ink on a metal plate, usually aluminum. It was the parallel product of two inventors: in 1875, the British Robert Barclay developed a version for printing on metals (tin) and, in 1903, the American Ira Washington Rubel adapted it for printing on paper.