Chapter 10 printmaking Art Appreciation

In any type of printmaking, after an initial set of prints is made and the block or plate is destroyed, the set of prints is referred to as

An edition

Which famous French illustrator called for political and social reform by stirring emotion in prints such as Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834?

Honoré Daumier

When and where was printmaking first developed?

In the 9th century in China

What is the main advantage of linocut over woodcut printmaking, and what special effects does this advantage offer?

It is easier to cut into linoleum than wood and therefore the artist can create more flexible, fluid lines.

Two Courtesans, Inside and Outside the Display Window by Suzuki Harunobu is an example of what kind of art?

Japanese nishiki-e

According to the text, lithography enjoyed a marked increase in popularity after the late 1950s, due in part to the efforts of artists such as

June Wayne

One of the greatest masters of the intaglio process was the artist

Rembrandt van Rijn.

Which process best describes intaglio printing?

The area that prints is below the surface of the plate.

What is the chief advantage of printmaking over other media?

The artist can make multiple copies of a single image

A woodcut print such as Erich Heckel's Fränzi Reclining is an example of

a relief print

Which printmaking process—a process that relies for its effect not on line but on tonal areas of light and dark—does Jane Dickson's Stairwell illustrate?

aquatint

What is the name of the process in which an artist pushes the point of a burin across a metal plate, forcing the metal up in slivers in front of the burin?

engraving

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds by Rembrandt van Rijn reveals how etching differs from other printmaking techniques in its

immediate effects that approximate a sketch drawn by the artist's hand.

When was The Nuremberg Chronicle printed and what is its subject matter?

in the fifteenth century and it is a history of the world to that point

An early form of printmaking used in the West was

movable type with a wooden printing press.

The Diamond Sutra is remarkable because

of its vital role in the mass distribution of ideas.

Monotype is unique among printmaking processes because it produces

only one print from the plate.

Because in lithography the printing surface is completely flat, it is referred to as

planographic.

What is the process that assures that the colors of a linocut or other relief print will align perfectly?

registration

Roger Shimomura's Enter the Rice Cooker is an example of what kind of printmaking?

silkscreen

Previously used in commercial packaging, silkscreen printing was first used as an art medium in

the mid-twentieth century in the United States.

Kitagawa Utamaro's The Fickle Type represents what can be described as a(n)

ukiyo-e print.

Which of these was normal subject matter for ukiyo-e or nishiki-e prints?

women engaged in everyday activities

Which of the following is an example of relief printmaking?

woodcut

What printmaking technique was used in The Nuremberg Chronicle, and why was this technique successful for this image?

woodcut, because it enabled the artist to define details clearly

Jim Dine's Toothbrushes #4 can be seen as a

work influenced by psychoanalysis.