Chapter 8

2 principles that distinguish original artists prints from commercial reproductions.

1. Artwork was designed to only be a print 2. Artist oversees the entire process of printing

6 methods of intaglio

1. Engraving 2. Drypoint 3. Mezzotint 4. Etching 5. Aquatint 6. Photogravure

6 basic types of printmaking

1. Relief 2. Intaglio 3. Lithography 4. Screen Printing 5. Monotypes 6. Ink Jet

3 basic methods of relief printmaking

1. Woodcut 2. Wood Engraving 3. Linocut

Screenprinting

A printmaking method in which the image is transferred to paper by forcing ink through a fine mesh in which the areas not meant to print have been blocked; a stencil technique.

Monotype

A printmaking method resulting in a single impression.

Lithography

A printmaking technique based on the fact that oil and water repel each other.

Woodcut

A relief printmaking method in which a block of wood is carved so as to leave the image areas raised from the background.

Wood Engraving

A relief printmaking process in which the image is cut on the end grain of a wood plank, resulting in a "white line" impression.

In 1515, _______ was appointed court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.

Albrecht Druer

Ground

An acid resistant coating applied to a metal plate to ready it for use in etching

Engraving

An intaglio printmaking method in which lines are cut into the plate using a sharp tool called a burin, which creates a clean, v-shaped channel.

Mezzotint

An intaglio printmaking technique in which the printing plate is first roughed with a special tool called a rocker; which creates a fine pattern of burrs.

The earliest surviving woodcut images, dated 868 CE, has a representation of the _______ preaching.

Buddha

The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut images. The book was made in the 9th century CE in ________.

China

Cancelled

Destroying a printing surface so no future prints can be made

Kathe Kollwitz

German artist who focused on drawing and prints.

Photogravure

In intaglio printmaking, a method for printing a continuous -tone photographic image.

Matrix

In printmaking, a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface.

Relief

In printmaking, techniques in which portions of a block meant to be printed are raised

Registration

In printmaking, the precise alignment of impressions made by two or more printing blocks or plates on the same sheet of paper, as when printing an image in several colors

Stop Out

In printmaking, to protect selected areas of a plate from the bite of acid by coating them with a resistant varnish.

Etching

Intaglio method in which the design is bitten into the printing plate with acid, usually used to create lines

__________ is a method of printing that usually results in only one print.

Monotype

Albrecht Durer

Nuremburg's famous artist son. 1471-1528

Intaglio

Printmaking techniques in which the lines or areas that will take ink are incised into the printing plate

Edition

Total number of prints created.

Impression

an individual print

An artist who is directly engaged in creating an edition of prints from an original master usually makes a limited number of prints, ______ and signs them.

approves

One of the main differences between the intaglio and the relief printing processes is that with intaglio the ink lies ______ the surface of the printing plate.

below

In printmaking, a plate or block will be ______ so that no more prints can be made from it.

cancelled

A rubber stamp produced a print in much the same way that and engraver does.

f

An edition in printmaking is the person who corrects the spelling and punctuation on the master before the printing process begins.

f

Aquatint is not one of the techniques of intaglio printing.

f

Engraving is the term used for correctly aligning sheets to be printed in several colors.

f

If a print is numbered 4/100, four colors, including black and white, were used in the printing process.

f

Rembrandt was a master of serigraphy.

f

Serigraphy is a major technique for creating lines in intaglio printmaking.

f

The printing surface is always flat in every printing method.

f

The term lithography refers to an intaglio process.

f

To prevent poorly impressed prints, Rembrandt always destroyed his etched plates after making an edition.

f

Woodcuts and wood engravings are all produced in the intaglio process.

f

In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same original design, each individual print is called an ________________.

impression

Etching and engraving are examples of ________ method of printmaking.

intaglio

In the process of _________ the print is puled from a slab of limestone

lithography

The printing technique invented by a german playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing music is __________.

lithography

In the 17 century, an amateur artist from the Netherlands boasted to his king that he had crated a method for for printing shadings of gray without using lines. The painting technique was _________ which is part of the intaglio family of processes.

mezzotint

The printing technique of _______ is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray.

mezzotint

Expect in the case of _______, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.

monotypes

The 2 main differences between prints and most other forms of art are : prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in _______ of the same image.

multiples

If a print is created from a flat surface without either a raised or indented printing surface, the technique belongs in the ____________ family.

planographic

The idea that a print is made from a matrix has been altered by the use of an artist quality _______ to make prints.

printer

Printing impressions on top of one another from separate blocks in order to achieve full color woodcut prints requires careful alignment of the paper, known as ______.

registration

A rubber stamp creates a _________ type print.

relief

Linocut

relief printmaking in which the printing surface is a thick layer of linoleum

A squeege is used to force ink through the mesh of a ___.

screen

Serigraphy means, literally "___________."

silk writing

A high quality ink jet printer uses finer, pigment based inks formulated to resist fading or altering in color over time.

t

A linocut is very similar to a woodcut, except that the material is easier to carve and less durable.

t

Albrecht Durer traveled and worked in Italy and was one of the first northern european painters to consider himself an artist rather than a craftsman.

t

Because of industrial versions of printing processes images are routinely printed on almost every imaginable surface around us.

t

Gouche is not one of the four basic printmaking methods.

t

The term intaglio means that the marks will be made by ink recessed into areas below the surface of the plate.

t

Traditionally, a numbered art print shows both the number of prints in the entire edition and the number relating the order in which each print is pulled.

t

Wood engravings are done on the end grain of the wood rather that the smooth plank.

t