Printmaking

Printmaking

• The transfer of an image from one surface to another surface.

• Printmakers produce multiples of the same piece, which is called a print.

• Each piece is not a copy but an original since it is not a reproduction of another work of art

Major Types of Printmaking:

• Relief

• Intaglio

• Lithography

• Serigraphy (screenprinting)

• Henri Matisse, from Pasiphae suite, 1944, linocut

• Walter Joseph Phillips(1884-1963): York boat on Lake Winnipeg, 1930, woodcut

Albrecht Durer St. Michael's fight against the dragon ,1498 Woodcut

M.C. Escher, Day and Night Woodcut in black and gray, printed from two blocks (15 3/8 x 26 5/8 in.)

• Woodcut: Ernst Kirchner, Alpine Shepherd, 1917

Edition• The number of

images printed from the block

• The body of the edition is numbered directly on the print, usually in pencil.

Nathalie Roland title: Cervidae Arboreous: tiny army edition

Numbering

• Numbering indicates the size of the edition and the number of each particular print.

• 25/75 means that the print is the 25th impression from an edition of 75.

Artist's Proofs• A print of

edition quality, but separate from the numbered editionthat is kept by the artist.

• noted in pencil as artist proof or A/P

Proof• A print pulled for

examination while working on the block.

The Tyler Graphics team pulling a proof of Freefall, a woodcut by Helen Frankenthaler

Monoprint

• A print that cannot exactly be reproduced

Basic etching, printed before Final print was applied with brushes

Final print

Colleen Corradi, Rapsodia

Ghost Print

• A print made from the remaining ink on a block or plate after a print has been pulled.

Belinda Del Pesco, lithography

• Andy Warhol (1928-1987): A Set of Six Self-Portraits, 1967, oil and silkscreen on canvas

Andy Warhol, Marilyn 1967