Answer the following questions in the provided textbox. Some
answers are from your textbook and some answers are from
lecture.
1. Why would an artist choose to make prints?:
As part of the printmaking process, artists sometimes make prints
called progressive proofs at various stages to see how the image on
the matrix is developing. When a satisfactory stage is reached, the
artist makes a few prints for his or her record and personal use.
These are marked AP, meaning artist's proof.
* Generally, artists make prints for one or more of the following
reasons:
They may wish to make multiple works that are less expensive
than paintings or sculpture, so that their work will be available for
purchase by a wider group of viewers.
They may wish to influence social causes. Because prints are
multiple works, they are easy to distribute far more widely than a
unique work of art.
They may be fascinated by the process of printmaking which is an
absorbing craft in itself.
2. What is relief printing?:
A technique in which the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are
left raised, while remaining areas are cut away.
3. What are the three types of relief printing?:
Woodcut: A type of relief print made from a plank of relatively soft
wood; the artist carves away the negative spaces, leaving the image
in relief to take the ink for printing.
Wood engraving: A method of relief printing in wood; made with
denser wood, cutting into the end of the grain rather than the side.
Linocut: A relief printmaking process in which an artist cuts away
negative spaces from a block of linoleum, leaving raised areas to
take ink for printing.
answers are from your textbook and some answers are from
lecture.
1. Why would an artist choose to make prints?:
As part of the printmaking process, artists sometimes make prints
called progressive proofs at various stages to see how the image on
the matrix is developing. When a satisfactory stage is reached, the
artist makes a few prints for his or her record and personal use.
These are marked AP, meaning artist's proof.
* Generally, artists make prints for one or more of the following
reasons:
They may wish to make multiple works that are less expensive
than paintings or sculpture, so that their work will be available for
purchase by a wider group of viewers.
They may wish to influence social causes. Because prints are
multiple works, they are easy to distribute far more widely than a
unique work of art.
They may be fascinated by the process of printmaking which is an
absorbing craft in itself.
2. What is relief printing?:
A technique in which the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are
left raised, while remaining areas are cut away.
3. What are the three types of relief printing?:
Woodcut: A type of relief print made from a plank of relatively soft
wood; the artist carves away the negative spaces, leaving the image
in relief to take the ink for printing.
Wood engraving: A method of relief printing in wood; made with
denser wood, cutting into the end of the grain rather than the side.
Linocut: A relief printmaking process in which an artist cuts away
negative spaces from a block of linoleum, leaving raised areas to
take ink for printing.
