Art Apprecation Chapter 8

2 principals that distinguish orginal artist prints from commercial reproduction:

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. Photogravue

6 types of printmaking:

1. Relief 2. Intaglio 3. Lithography 4. Screen printing 5. Monotype 6. Inkjet

3 basic methods of relief printmaking:

1. Woodcut 2. Wood Engraving 3. Linocut

In 1515, _______ __________ was appointed court painter to the Holy Roman Maximilian 1

Albrecht Durer

Nuremburg's famous artisit son, 1471-1528

Albrecht Durer

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

Approves

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

Below

The ealiest surviving woodcut image, dated 868 C.E., has a repreentation of the __________

Buddha

Destorying the printing surfae so that no further prints can be made

Cancel

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

Cancelled

The earliest known printed book contains the earliest surviving woodcut image. The book was made in the 9th century C.E. in __________

China

Total number of prints created

Edition

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

Engraving

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

Etching

A rubber stamp produces a print in much the same way that an engraver does

False

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

False

Aquatint is NOT one of te techniques of intaglio printing

False

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

False

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

False

Rembrandt was a master of serigraphy

False

The printing surface is always falt in every printing method

False

The term lithography refers to an intaglio process

False

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

False

Woodcuts and wood engravings are all produced by the intaglio process

False

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

Ground

In printmaking, where multiple images are made from the same orginal design, each individual print is called an ______________

Impresion

An individual print

Impression

Etching and engraving are example of ___________ method of printmaking

Intaglio

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

Intaglio

German artist who focused on drawing and prints

Kathe Kollwitz

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

Linocut

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

Lithography

In the process of ________ the print is pulled 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 printmaking, a surface on which a design is prepared before being transfered through pressure to a receving surface

Matrix

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

Mezzopoint

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

Mezzotint

A printmaking method resulting in a single impression

Monotype

Except in the case of _________, indentical multiple impressions are printed to create editions in printmaking

Monotypes

An artisit who is directly engaged in creating an edition of prints from an orginal master usually makes a limited number of prints, ___________ and signs then

Numbers

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

Photogravue

If a print is created from a flat surface without either a raised or intended printing surface, the techique 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

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

Registration

Printing impreion on top of one another from eperate blocks to achieve full-color woodcut prints requires careful alignments of the paper, know as

Registration

A rubber stamp creates a ________ type print

Relief

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

Relief

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

Screenprinting

Silk screen, screenprinting

Serigraph

Serigraphy means, literally, "_____ __________"

Silk writing

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

Stop out

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

True

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

True

Albrecht Durer travled adn worked in Italy and was one of the first Northern European painters to conider himself an artit rather than craftsan

True

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

True

Gouche is NOT one of the 4 baic printmaking methods

True

Serigraphy is a major technique for creating lines in intaglio printmaking

True

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

True

Traditonally, 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

True

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

True

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

Wood engraving

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

Woodcut

The printing techique of _________ is especially capable of producing subtle shades of gray

mezzotint

_________ is a method of printing that usually result in only one print

monotype

The two main differences between prints and most other form of art are: prints are made using an indirect process and this process results in __________ of the same image

multiples

A squeegee is used to force ink through the mesh of a ______________

screen