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