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Corita Kent Serigraph

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Corita Kent printed as a nun in the art department of Immaculate Heart College, pulling screens flooded edge to edge with daylight fluorescent ink. Her sources came off the street — Wonder Bread wrappers, Esso signage, the General Mills Big G — torn, crumpled, re-photographed, then cut into paper stencils.

Nothing in the work is drawn cleanly. Edges are torn, separations land a few pixels out of register, and hand-lettered scripture curves around blobs of flat colour. The sheet is never white: it is covered in ink at full pigment strength, and the type shouts across it.

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  • OriginLos Angeles, USA — Immaculate Heart College; later Boston
  • Period1950–1990; the Day-Glo pop work concentrated 1964–1969
  • DesignerCorita Kent · Harry Hambly · Harry Metcalf
  • MovementsAmerican Pop art · serigraphy · Rules for Students and Teachers

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