PrintmakingBy: Alex Kiczales

An Art Presentation.

About

• Three Part Presentations.

• Part 1: Questions about what Printmaking is.

• Part 2: Vocabulary terms in Printmaking.

• Part 3: Artist That used Printmaking.

Questions

• What is Printmaking: Printmaking is a type of art that has been practiced all around the world. The physical act of printmaking involves the “artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens”(Dictionary.com).

• What is Monotyping: Monotyping is a type of printmaking where the artist draws or paints on a material that doesn’t absorb liquids.

Questions

• What is Screenprinting: A type of print making where someone uses silkscreen to make a certain print.

• What is Planographic: A type of printmaking where there is a technique of printing from a flat surface directly or indirectly (offset).

Questions

• What is Collagraphy: Type of print making process where the materials are applied to a rigid material.

• What is Viscosity Printing: It is a printmaking technique that incorporates different color, and uses some of the same principles of relief printing an intaglio printing.

Questions

• What is a print: A piece of art that is produced by adding ink to a printing plate, blocks, or types. Then adding it to a material to be printed on directly or indirectly.

• Why is a print referred to as an “original” and not a copy: Because when making a print you need the original template that it was printed from making it a “original”. A copy would be if you took a photo and printed it out. Also each print will be a bit different.

Questions

• What is/are the difference/s between printmaking and monotyping: In printmaking the artist manufacture a template for all the prints that he is going to create. While in Monotyping the artist just freely decides what the print is going to look like.

• A print can also be referred to as a original.

Questions

• How are prints created: Prints are created by taking the template then adding ink or paint on it and then putting it on a material that it could be sold on (Paper, Wood).

• What are screens used for in printmaking: To print a image one color at a time. To print multiple colors, someone will have to use multiple screens. This is sometimes used to print T-Shirts.

Questions

• What are common materials used in creating screens: They are usually made of silk or synthetic fibers.

• What are Limited editions: Editions of prints that only a couple of prints ever created, normally the artist will later destroy the template.

Questions

• Why is the matrix usually destroyed in limited edition: By destroying the matrix, nobody will ever be able to print a original again. By doing this it will add more value to it.

Vocabulary

• Matrix: A metal mold used to cast a type.

• Engraving: The art of forming designs by cutting, or corrosion.

• Linocuts: Cut made by cutting into linoleum on a piece of wood.

• Intaglio: A incised carving, instead of a relief carving.

Vocabulary

• Aquatint: Is a type of etching made by, etching a microscopic crackle on the copper plate that you will print on.

• Registration: When you need to apply more than one coat of ink or another medium.

• Ukiyo-e: A style of painting and printmaking from Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries.

Vocabulary

• Lithography: The process of producing something on a specially prepared stone.

• Ink: A fluid that is used for printmaking.

• Edition: A version of a certain printed material.

• Stencil: A device that is used to apply a pattern to a surface. In the device figures of letters have been cut out to add space to put a ink or paint.

Vocabulary

• Drypoint: A type of engraving that is normally used on copper. Where a needle is used to make the engraving.

• Artist Proof: Is an impression of a print that is taken during the printmaking process.

• Shin-Hanga: Was a art movement in Japan during the early 20th century.

Vocabulary

• Etching: An design made by carving out certain part of a materials such as wood or metal.

• Woodcuts: Carved block of wood, from which prints will be made.

• Relief: Printing process where protruding surface faces are inked for printing.

• Mezzotint: Method of engraving on a metal, where you scrape away a certain part of it.

Vocabulary

• Monotype: A print that is made from a metal or glass plate with multiple colors.

• Banhua: Is a Chinese term for any printed objects, especially if they are made by woodblock printing.

• Sosaku-Hanga: An art movement in Japan during the early 20th century.

Artist

• List of artist: Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Jijn, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Hans Holbein, Francisco Goya, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dali, Katsushika Hokusai, Felix Vallotton, Andy Warhol, Enrique Chagoya.

Albrecht Dürer

• Part of the Northern Rennaissance.

• German Painter.

• He was a German painter and printmaker.

Knight, Death and the Devil.(1513-1514)Engraving

Melencolia I.

(1514)Engraving

(The Met.)

(The Met.)

Rembrant van Jijn

• Part of the Dutch Golden Age.

• Dutch.

• Painter and Printmaker.

Jan Lutma.(1656)Etching and Drypoint.

The Windmill.

(1641)Etching

(The Met.) (The Met.)

Toulouse-Lautrec

• Part of Post-Impressionism, and Art Nouveau.

• From France.

• Painter and Printmaker. Who is know for his painting of women.

(The Met.)

May Belfort.(1895)Linograph in four colors (The Met.)

Divan Japonais.(1892-1893)

Linograph in four colors

Pablo Picasso• Part of Cubism, Picasso’s Rose period, Picasso’s African Period, Modern Art,

Picasso’s blue period, Analytic cubism, Synthetic Cubism.

• From Spain, but spent most of his life in France.

• The majority of his work was really abstract. Was know for his many different movements.

Figure Composee I.LithographMerritt

Gallery.

L’Attente.(1966)

Lithograph

Master Works Fine Art.

Hans Holbein

• Northern Rennaissance.

• German.

• One of the best painter of portraits at that time.

The Rich Man.1538WoodcutBritish

Museum.

Lover Surprised by Death.(1510)

Woodcut

British Museum.

Francisco Goya

• From the Romanticism period.

• Spanish.

• Known for his painting of people.

Probacitas!Etching Aquatint

Park West.

Les Resultas.Etching

Park West.

Roy Lichtenstein

• Modern art, Pop era.

• American

• Known for his comics and became a leading figure in the new art era.

Foot Medication.(1963)PhotolithographMOMA. MOMA.

Temple.(1964)Photolithograph and offset printing

Salvador Dali

• Surrealism, Cubism, Modern Art, Dada

• From Spain.

• Known for his print and painting. Also appeared in a few movies.

Drawers of Memory.(1965)Salvador Dali Experts.com

The Lucky Number Dali(1965)Lithograph

Dali.com

Katsushika Hokusai

• Part of the Ukiyo-e movement.

• From Japan.

• Known for his many pieces depicting oceans.

Under the Wave off Kanagawa(1830-1832)Polychrome woodblock printThe Met. The Met.

Poem By Kiyohara no Fukayabu. (1835) Polychrome woodblock print

Felix Vallotton

• From the Les Nabis Period.

• From Switzerland.

• Help redevelop woodblock printing at that time.

The Swans.(1892)WoodcutMOMA. MOMA.

Murder.(1893)

Woodcut

Andy Warhol

• Modern Art, Pop Art.

• American.

• Known for his really vibrant prints of pop art icons such as Marilyn Monroe.

Christie’s.

Marilyn.(1967)Screenprint in colors on wove paper.

Reigning Queens: Queen Elizabeth II of the United

Kingdom.(1985)

Screenprints in color

Royal Collection.

Enrique Chagoya

• Current Artist.

• Is a Mexican Artist.

• A lot of his work has to do with the changing nature of culture.

Life is a Dream, Then You Wake Up.(1995)Color Monotype on Bark

Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Elvis Meets the Virgin of Guadeloupe

(1994)Lithograph

Ro Gallery.

Works Cited

• Vocabulary help from: "Dictionary.com." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 1 Apr. 2014. <http://dictionary.reference.com>. And "Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Feb. 2014. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/>.

• Photo’s from: Different websites the website of the photo is listed nearby.