• Repoussé or repujado in Spanish, is a metalworking technique in which a sheet of metal has a design worked into it by pushing the metal in and out from both sides using a variety of tools.
• The metal is stretched so the sheet remains intact with no loss of material.
• In French repoussé means
“pushed out”.Elixir of Life by Rocio Heredia
History of Repoussé
Agememnon’s Funeral Mask Gold Mycenean Cup
• Repoussé is a very old art form dating from antiquity and was widely used with gold and silver for detailed works and copper and bronze for larger sculptures
• By the year 3000 BC. semi-mass production techniques were introduced to avoid
repetitive free-hand work.Artisan’s could press sheets of gold into molds carved in intaglio into bone, metal or stone to more easily form a design.
• Patterned punches were introduced as early as 2000 BC. to texture the background and sharpen details and relief.
• Early materials used to fill repoussés included mud and resin in Egypt and beeswax in Ancient Greece
Gary Dadyan, a Russian artist, is tapping the repoussé tools into the sheet of metal using a small hammer.
• During the Hopewell and Mississippian periods of the Southwest and Midwest Native Americans, repoussé was used to form ritual jewelry and decorations which were eventually used as burial goods.
• copper repoussé plate depicting Birdman, Late Braden Style
Repoussé continues to be used to make decorative plaques and is a popular technique of making jewelry.
• http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=494850
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vXNLpVafM&
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