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contemporary art

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Silk-screen prints are a major form of contemporary Indian art. Silk-screen printing emerged in the 1950's as a new non-traditional art form, and was easily adapted to traditional Northwest Coast two dimensional design concepts.

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Silkscreen print design of the sun. The red sun has a circular face with ovoid eyes. There is a u form below the eyes with the nose in between and two long, thin lines angling inward to come to a point above the centre. There is a mouth and a chin. The ears have a sideways split u surrounded by a red u form. There are four large, wide protrusions around the circular face, the top ones of which each have a hand-like shape within while the bottom ones of which each have a split v. There is a single radiating line in between each ear and the large, wide protrusions. There are two pairs of radiating lines in between the two top large, wide protrusions while there is one pair in between the two below. Pencil inscription across the bottom edge reads '84/200 2/7/75 THE SUN TSIMSHIAN TRIBE KITKATLA B.C. Roy H. Vickers'. The print is on a vertically rectangular, light blue paper piece.