Intro to Art - SATH101

1. PRINTMAKING

2. Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra from Cave 17. Printed in the ninth year of
the Xiantong Era of the Tang Dynasty, 868 CE.

3. PRINT = a single ‘impression’
IMPRESSION = image that has been transferred
through pressure onto a substrate (most
commonly paper)
MATRIX = surface on which the design
was created
EDITION = multiple impressions made from
the same matrix
ORIGINAL PRINT v. PRINT

4. FIVE BASIC PROCESSES OF PRINTMAKING
RELIEF
INTAGLIO
PLANOGRAPHY
SILKSCREEN
MONOTYPE

5. RELIEF
Refers to any printmaking process in which
the image to be printed is raised off the
background in reverse.
Common relief processes
Woodcut
Wood engraving
Linoleum Cut

6. Relief-printing technique.

7. Emile Nolde. Prophet. 1912.
image: 12 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.; sheet: 15 3/4 x 13 5/16 in.

8. Thomas Moran. Noon-Day Rest in Marble Canyon, from Exploration of
the Colorado River of the West by J. W. Powell. 1875.
6 1/2 x 4 3/8 in.

9. Cyril E. Power. The Tube Train. about 1934.
12 5/16 x 12 11/16 in.

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0

11. INTAGLIO
Refers to any printmaking process in which
the image to be printed is below the
surface of the plate.
Common intaglio processes
Engraving
Etching
Drypoint
Mezzotint and Aquatint

12. Intaglio printmaking technique, general view.

13. Intaglio printmaking techniques, side views.

14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI&feature=relmfu

15. After J. M. W. Turner. Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbor’s Mouth
(1842). 1891.

16. Käthe Kollwitz. Death, Woman and Child. 1910.
plate: 16 1/8 x 16 3/16 in.

17. Mary Cassatt. The Map (The Lesson). 1890.
6 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.

18. Prince Rupert. The Standard Bearer. 1658.
11 x 11 7/8 in.

19. Jane Dickson. Stairwell. 1984.
35 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.

20. PLANOGRAPHY
Refers to any printmaking process with a flat printing
surface and depends on the fact that grease
and water do not mix.
Common planography processes
Lithography

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc&feature=relmfu

22. Honoré Daumier. Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834. 1834.
11 1/2 x 17 5/8 in.

23. Elaine de Kooning. Lascaux #4. 1984.
15 x 21 in.

24. Robert Rauschenberg. Accident. 1963.
41 x 29 in.

25. SCREENPRINTING
Formally known as Serigraphs. Process where print
is created by pushing ink through a stencil on
a mesh screen.

26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wogKeYH2wEE&feature=relmfu

27. Peter Halley. Exploding Cell. 1994.
(each): 36 1/2 x 47 1/8 in.

28. Andy Warhol. Marilyn Monroe. 1967.
37 1/2 x 37 1/2 in.

29. Andy Warhol. San Francisco Silverspot, from the Endangered Species
series. 1983.
38 x 38 in.