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.
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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