Art Appreciation - Printmaking

Picasso

20th century artist who created a huge body of work using relief (lino), lithography and intaglio processes.

relief

A rubber stamp creates what type of print?

prior to the 1960s

Although criteria for controlling the procedures of printmaking now exist, there were no strict guidelines until:

monoprints

Except in the case of ___________, identical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking.

There are 99 other prints in the edition.

If a print is numbered 4/100, what information can be deciphered?

no more prints can be made from it.

In printmaking, a plate or block will be cancelled so that:

an impression.

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

linocut

Is an example of a linocut. It is a relief print.

"silk writing"

Literal meaning of Serigraphy

lies below

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

registration.

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:

China

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

lithography.

The printing technique invented by a German playwright in search of an inexpensive means of publishing his plays. Was also used to publish music scores.

Prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in multiples of the same image.

What are the two main differences between prints and most other forms of art?

engraving

can be done as a relief technique or an intaglio technique.

lithography

is a process that has many qualities of drawing with a crayon or a grease pencil - but also allow for scratching back into the surface of the plate or stone. The basic printing principle is that Water and oil resist each other.