Cheret lithographic posters and Art Nouveau

A detailed Summary of Cheret lithographic posters and Art Nouveau

Although lithography was invented in 1798, it was at first too slow and expensive for

poster production. Most posters were woodblocks or metal engravings with little color or

design. This all changed with Cheret's "three stone lithographic process," a breakthrough

which allowed artists to achieve every color in the spectrum with as little as three stones -

red, yellow and blue - printed in careful registration.

Although the process was difficult, the result was a remarkable intensity of color

and texture, with sublime transparencies and nuances impossible in other media (even to

this day). This ability to combine word and image in such an attractive and economical

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Jules Cheret, , America France,

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