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The Art of Printmaking

The Art of Printmaking. Mrs. Barbier. Printing or printmaking is transferring an inked image from one prepared surface to another. Often the surface to which a printed images is transferred is paper. The History of Printmaking. Printmaking is nearly 2000 years old.

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The Art of Printmaking

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  1. The Art of Printmaking Mrs. Barbier

  2. Printing or printmaking is transferring an inked image from one prepared surface to another. • Often the surface to which a printed images is transferred is paper.

  3. The History of Printmaking • Printmaking is nearly 2000 years old. • The Chinese were among the first people to make prints. • Later the Japanese developed printmaking into a fine art.

  4. Katsushika Hokusai. View of Mt. Fuji from Seven-Ri Beach. 1823-29. Coloured Woodcut. 25.7x38.1 cm.

  5. Albrecht Durer. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498. Woodcut. 30.9x20.8 cm

  6. Prints may be made with many different media and techniques. • Durer’s print began as an image carved in a wooden block. Ink was applied to the block, which was then pressed onto a sheet of paper. • With the invention of the printing press in 1438, block prints were used for book illustrations.

  7. Printing Press

  8. The Printmaking Basics • All prints are made using three basic steps. • These steps, in the order in which they take place.

  9. Making a printing plate • A printing plate is a surface onto or into which the image is placed. • In making a plate, the artist makes a mirror image of the final print.

  10. Inking the plate • The artist applies ink. • Often this is done with a brayer, a roller with a handle. • For a multi-colour print one plate is made for each colour.

  11. Transferring the image • The paper is pressed against the inked plate. • Sometimes this is done by hand. • At other times a printing press is used.

  12. Usually more thank one print is made from a given plate. • A group of identical prints all made from a single plate is called an edition. • The artist will determine how many prints are made in an edition.

  13. Creating a Print Edition • The number on the right tells how many prints are in the edition. The number on the left tells which particular print is made. • When an edition is completed, the artist cancels or destroys the plate. This is done by disfiguring the plate so it can no longer be used. 11/20

  14. More about Printmaking • There are four main techniques artist use for making prints. • They are relief printing, intaglio, lithography, and screen printing.

  15. Relief Printing • If you ever have made a stamp print you have made a relief print. • In relief printing, the image to be printed is raised from the background.

  16. Edvard Munch. The Kiss. 1902. Woodcut, printed in grey and black, block. 46.7x46.4 cm.

  17. Lithography • Lithography is a printmaking method in which the image to be printed is drawn on limestone, zinc, or aluminum with a special greasy crayon. • When the stone is dampened and then inked, the greased area alone holds the ink. • Paper is pressed against the plate tom make the print

  18. M.C. Escher. Relativity. July 1953. Lithograph277×294 mm.

  19. M.C. Escher. Hand with Reflecting Sphere. 1935, lithograph, 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches.

  20. Thomas Hart Benton. Planting . 1939. Lithograph.

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