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Printmaking

Printmaking. A Process of Art in which designs are transferred from an inked surface to a support surface. Above: Hokusai (woodblock), Warhol (silkscreen), Durer (intaglio). Printmaking Processes. Relief Printmaking Carving into a wood or linoleum surface Ink raised surfaces to print

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Printmaking

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  1. Printmaking A Process of Art in which designs are transferred from an inked surface to a support surface. Above: Hokusai (woodblock), Warhol (silkscreen), Durer (intaglio)

  2. Printmaking Processes • Relief Printmaking • Carving into a wood or linoleum surface • Ink raised surfaces to print • Intaglio Printmaking • Etching into a metal surface • Ink inlaid in etched lines to print • Silkscreen Printing • Transferring a design onto a screen to push ink through • Used for t-shirts, posters • Lithography • Drawing a design on a stone surface • Using a resist chemical, ink sticks to drawn lines to print

  3. A Brief History • Pre-Historic Cavemen stamp hands on walls • 1,000 BC-Ancient Sumerians engrave stamps on cylinder seals • 2nd – 8th Century-Chinese and Japanese create ‘rubbings’, Europeans print textiles • 1151- Paper! Invented by someone in Spain

  4. And now that we have paper… • 15th Century-German playing cards made from woodcuts • 16th Century-Albrecht Durer invents the printing press (self portrait in studio to the left) • Etching into metal, woodcuts, and eventually lithographs on stone are created.

  5. Purposes • Functional • Books • Textile • Persuasive • Poster art • Advertising • Propaganda • Artistic Expression

  6. Relief Printmaking • Carving an image into a PLATE • Our PLATE will be a LINOLEUM BLOCK • Rolling ink over carved surface • Pressing inked design onto paper • Raised surfaces hold ink, carved surfaces will be the color of the paper • Image on plate will be reverse on paper

  7. Your Project • Will be a linoleum block relief print • 4” x 6” • Can be your choice of SUBJECT • Portrait • Still Life • Landscape • Non Objective • Can be your choice of PURPOSE • Persuasive • Artistic Expression • Functional • May NOT have words in the design • Should show at least 3 levels of value • Hatching/cross-hatching

  8. Student examples

  9. Researching Printmakers • Answer questions on Printmaking handout. • Research online: • Albrecht Durer • Katsushika Hokusai • KätheKollwitz • Andy Warhol • You may use Wikipedia

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