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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art
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The Pocket Universal Principles of Art

by John A Parks
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Rockport Publishers
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064 Printmaking

Printmaking creates multiple impressions, allowing wider dissemination and lower cost. Since the mid-nineteenth century, artists have numbered and signed their prints, creating limited editions.

PRINCIPLE METHODS

Relief. The artist carves into a surface or “matrix,” removing areas that are to remain white in the final image (for example, woodblock and linocut).

Intaglio. The artist cuts into the surface of a metal plate either directly, as in engraving, or indirectly, as in etching where a line is made in a wax ground and then bitten with acid into the metal plate beneath. Mezzotint is a variation of intaglio.

Planographic. The surface of the matrix is changed by the action of chemicals to make parts of it resist inking ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781631595431