vital role as in the mass distribution of ideas,
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Printmaking
• Vital role as in the mass distribution of ideas,
– Iconography
– Stylistic traditions
– Conventions of the visual culture
• Printmaking as art form 9th Century CE
• Print is a single impression
• Matrix: the surface upon which the design is made
• Multiple impressions made from the same matrix make an edition ex. 1/5-5/5
• Original print: an impression which is done under and artist supervision or by the artist himself
• AP= artist proof, used by the artist for personal use and exhibition purposes
Relief Process
• Woodcut:
• Wood Engraving:
Woodcut: Printed Book
Title: Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra from Cave 17,
Artist: N/A
Date: 868 CE
1. Diamond Sutra Scroll
1. Mahayana sutra of the
Perfection of Wisdom genre,
which teaches the practice of
the avoidance of abiding in
extremes of mental
attachment.
2. Sutra
1. Rule or manual of rules
3. Non-abiding
4. Freely distributed
5. Only one surviving copy at
the British Library of a printed
book
6. Read in 40 minutes
1. Chanted in Buddhist
Monasteries
Title: The Nuremberg Chronicle: View of Venice
Artist: Hartmann Schedel
Date: 1493
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rogers Fund, 1921.21.36.145.
Medium: Woodcut
Size: Illustration size approx. 10 x 20 in.
History of the World
1. Anton Koberger: first professional book publisher
2. 1800 pictures: 654 blocks employed
1. 44 images of men and women representing
Gutenberg Bible
Gutenberg Bible of the New
York Public Library, bought by
James Lenox in 1847. The first
to come to the USA, national
folklore has it that the officers
at the New York Customs
House removed their hats on
seeing it.
Title: Relief-printing technique
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Printing a Woodblock
Title: Prophet
Artist: Emile Nolde
Date: 1912
Source/Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Rosenwald Collection. © 1999 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art. 1943.3.6698. Courtesy Stiftung Seebull, Ada and Emile Nolde.
Medium: Woodcut
Size: Image: 12 5/8 x 8 ⅞ in; Sheet: 15 ¾ x 13 5/16 in.
1. One of the first German Expressionists
2. Expressive qualities of cuts made by the artist
1. High contrast between black and white
2. Emotional depiction
1. Can see the marks left by the gouging of
the wood by the artist
Woodcut
Woodcut: Nishiki-e1. Nishiki-e: brocade images (after
brocade textiles)
1. Calendars
2. Ukiyo-e: pictures of the transient world
1. Yoshiwawa pleasure district of
Edo
3. Harimise: lattice window
4. Graphic simplicity imbued with
Japanese culture and values
1. Philosphical representation of
the eras sexual traditions
5. Representation of unity within diversity
1. Taoist Philosophy of balance and
equilibrium
1. Perfect harmony: yin and
yang
2. Yin: passive, soft, and
nurturing (female)
3. Yang: aggressive, angular,
and hard (male)
Title: The Fickle Type. From the series Ten Physiognomies of Women.
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1793
Source/Museum: Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Woodcut
Size: 14 x 9 ⅞ in.
Ukiyo-e: pictures of the transient
world of everyday life
1. Pleasures of everyday life
1. Embodies the sexuality of the culture
Title: Utamaro's Studio...dosa-hiki (the three primary steps in producing a print
from drawing to glazing). From the series Edo meibutsu nishiki-e kosaku.
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1790
Source/Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Clarence Buckingham Collection. 1939.2141. Published by Tsuruya Kiemon. Photo © 1999. The Art Institute of Chicago. All rights reserved.
Medium: Oban triptych, ink and color on paper
Size: 24 ¾ x 9 5/8 in.
1. Mitate: fanciful picture
2. Beautiful girls
3. Sizing: reduction of the natural
absorbency of the paper
(alum)
4. Paper: Mulberry Tree Bark
fibers and bamboo fibers
5. The business in art
1. Publisher
2. Artist
3. Assistant
4. Carver
5. Sharpener
6. Paper Handlers
Mitate
Title: Japonaiserie: The Courtesan (after Kesai Eisen)
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1887
Japanese Prints in Europe
1. Cultural influence of the
Japanese culture
2. Women profession:
courtesan
3. Parisian words for prostitutes
1. Grue: crane
2. Grenouille: frog
Title: “Le Japon”
Artist: n/a
Date: May, 1886
Title: “Le Japon”
Artist: n/a
Date: May, 1886
Source/Museum: Cover of Paris Illustré. © van Gogh Museum,
Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: Shaving a Boy's Head
Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro
Date: c. 1795
Source/Museum: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Bequest of
Richard P. Gale. 74.1.153.
Medium: Color woodblock print
Size: 15 1/8 x 10 ¼ in.
Intimate world of Women
1. Domestic life: everyday chores and female
expectations
2. Contrast and Opposing forces
1. Bare Skin and Clothed
2. Patterned (decorative) and Outlined (form)
3. Color and White
4. Cultural Standards
1. Women Sexuality
2. Boy as a symbol of status
1. Fully clothed vs. naked
3. Shaven vs. full head of hair
1. Renouncing the material world
(Buddha)
2. Shimada hairstyle
1. Kanzashi: hairpin
Title: The Bath
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1890-1891
Source/Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Chester Dale Collection. 1963.10.248.
Medium: Drypoint and aquatint on laid paper
Size: Plate: 12 5/8 x 9 ¾ in.; Sheet: 17 3/16 x 12 in.
Title: Noon-Day Rest in Marble Canyon. From Exploration of the Colorado
River of the West
Artist: J. W. Powell
Date: 1875
Source/Museum: Plate 25 opposite page 75. After an original sketch by
Thomas Moran. Courtesy Colorado Historical Society. 978.06/P871eS.
Medium: Wood engraving
Size: 6 ½ x 4 /38 in.
Wood: Engraving1. White line: image is made by pushing in material
that will not print
Title: Luncheon on the Grass
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1962
Source/Museum: After Edouard Manet. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Mr.&Mrs. Charles Kramer Collection, Gift of Mr.&Mrs. Charles Kramer, 1979. 1979.620.50. Photo © 1983 The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ © 2003 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Linoleum cut, one block printed in black, green, red, violet, blue and yellow: Arches paper
Size: Edition: 50; Sheet: 24 3/8 x 29 5/8 in.; Image: 20 ⅞ x 25 ¼ in.
1. Registration: alignment of color
by using different matrixes for
different colors
1. Multiple drops
2. Linocut: linoleum matrix
3. Order of Registration
1. Yellow
2. Blue
3. Violet
4. Red
5. Green
6. Black
Linocut
Linocut
Title: The Tube Train
Artist: Cyril E. Power
Date: c. 1934
1. Daily Commute of London Workers
1. After work
1. Repetition:
2. Movement
3. Monotony
4. Modern Life
Title: Intaglio printmaking technique, general view
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Intaglio
Title: Intaglio printmaking technique, side views
Artist: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Intaglio Processes
Title: Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbor's Mouth (1842)
Artist: After J. M. Turner
Date: 1891
Source/Museum: © The British Museum, London
Medium: Engraving on steel
Size: n/a
Engraving
Title: Adam and Eve, First State
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1504
Source/Museum: Graphische Sammlung, Albertina, Wien.
Medium: Engravings
Size: Each 9 ⅞ x 7 5/8 in.
1. Engraving
2. States of printmaking
Title: Adam and Eve, Second State
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1504
Source/Museum: Graphische Sammlung, Albertina, Wien.
Medium: Engravings
Size: Each 9 ⅞ x 7 5/8 in.
Title: Adam and Eve, Fourth State
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1504
Source/Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Fletcher Fund 1919. 19.73.1.
Medium: Engraving
Size: 9 ⅞ x 7 5/8 in.
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Figure 23-1 ALBRECHT DÜRER, The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve), 1504. Engraving, 9
7/8” x 7 5/8”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (centennial gift of Landon T. Clay).
1. 1st Lawsuit of Artistic Copyright
1. Durer sues an Italian Artist for
copying his art
2. Godson of Anton Koberger in
Nuremberg shop
2. Classical postures of the figures
3. Four Humors: balance of vile in the body
1. Black: elk
1. melancholic or miserable or
despondent
2. Yellow: cat
1. choleric or cruelty easily
angered
3. Blood: rabbit
1. Sanguine or courageous or
sexuality
4. Phlegm: ox
1. Phlegmatic or calm or laziness
5. Parrot: wisdom and language
6. Cat and Mouse
Title: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date: 1634
Source/Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
Medium: Etching
Size: 10 ¼ x 8 ½ in.
1. Hard ground: acid resistant
1. Soft ground
2. Hard ground
2. Plate: substrate
3. Etch: biting or eating away of plate
through acid
4. Stopping out
1. Strength or intensity of
individual lines
Etching1. Christian Narrative
1. “Let there be Light”
2. Light and dark
Title: Death, Woman and Child
Artist: Käthe Kollwitz
Date: 1910
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Theodore
Boettger. Licensed by Scala-Art Resource, New York. Photo © 1999 Museum of Modern Art © 2003 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
Medium: Etching, printed on dark brown
Size: Plate: 16 1/8 x 16 3/16 in.
Etching
1. Emotional conflict
1. Contrast of black and
white
Figure 35-9 KATHE KOLLWITZ, Woman with Dead Child, 1903. Etching and soft-ground etching, overprinted lithographically with a gold tone plate, 1’ 4 5/8” X 1’ 7 1/8”. British Museum, London.
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Post-war Expressionism
1. Maternal loss and grief
1. Series of Mother and child
2. Animalistic passion
1. Precedent (Christian Pieta)
2. Primal depiction of emotions
3. Son died in World War I
1. Age 21
Title: The Map (The Lesson)
Artist: Mary Cassatt
Date: 1890
Source/Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. Joseph Brooks Fair
Collection. 1933.537. Photo © 1999 The Art Institute of Chicago. All rights
reserved.
Medium: Drypoint
Size: 6 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.
Drypoint
1. Burr, ridge along the incision
where material is displaced
2. Velvety soft texture and edges
3. Very limited edition
1. The image is progressively
erased as more prints are
made
Title: The Standard Bearer
Artist: Prince Rupert
Date: 1658
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933.32.52.32.
Medium: Mezzotint
Size: 11 x 11 ⅞ in.
1. Mezzotint: negative subtractive
process
2. Rocker:
Mezzotint
Title: Stairwell
Artist: Jane Dickson
Date: 1984
Source/Museum: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts. The Henry Rox Memorial Fund for the Acquisition of Works by Contemporary Women Artists.
Medium: Aquatint on Rives BFK paper
Size: 35 ¾ x 22 ¾ in.
Aquatint
1. Roughness: underscores the loneliness of the subject
1. Physiological states
Sand Blasting Aquatint
Title: The Races (Les Courses)
Artist: Edouard Manet
Date: 1865
Source/Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Rosenwald Collection. © 1999 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art. 1943.3.9084 (B-11151). Photo: Dean Beasom.
Medium: Lithograph
Size: 14 5/8 x 20 ½ in.
1. Stone writing
2. Plano graphic print making process
3. Alois Senefelder: 1790’s
1. Munich
2. Limestone on streets
4. Grease and water do not mix
1. Acid, water,
2. gum arabic: substance from
the acacia tree
Lithography
Title: Rue Transnonain
Artist: Honoré Daumier
Date: April, 1834
Source/Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago. The Charles Derring
Collection. 1953.530. Photo © 1999 The Art Institute of Chicago. All rights
reserved.
Medium: Lithograph
Size: 11 ½ x 17 5/8 in.
Title: Lascaux #4
Artist: Elaine de Kooning
Date: 1984
Source/Museum: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Gift of the Mount Holyoke College Printmaking Workshop. Printed by John Hutcheson at Mount Holyoke College.
Medium: Lithograph on Arches paper
Size: Sheet: 15 x 21 in.
Lithography
1. Directness
2. Spontaneity
3. Timeless and per menace
of her image
1. History and the
present
Title: Stellar Roil, Stellar Winds 5
Artist: June Wayne
Date: 1978
Source/Museum: © June Wayne/Licensed by VAGA, New York,
New York.
Medium: Lithograph
Size: Image: 11 x 9 ¼ in.; Paper: 18 ¾ x 14 ¾ in.
Title: Wind Veil, Stellar Winds 3
Artist: June Wayne
Date: 1978
Source/Museum: © June Wayne/Licensed by VAGA, New York,
New York.
Medium: Lithograph
Size: Image: 11 x 9 ¼ in.; Paper: 18 ¾ x 14 ¾ in.
Title: Knockout
Artist: June Wayne
Date: 1996
Source/Museum: © June Wayne/Licensed by VAGA, New York,
New York.
Medium: Lithograph
Size: Image: 28 ¼ x 35 1/8 in.; Paper: bleed
Title: Accident
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Date: 1963
Source/Museum: Collection of The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Gift of the
Women's Committee. © Robert Rauschenberg/Licensed by VAGA, New York, New
York.
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Size: 41 x 29 in.
tusche
Lithography
1. Printed at West Islip Studio
Title: Design for a Colossal Clothespin Compared to Brancusi's Kiss
Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Date: 1972
Source/Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art. From the Friends
of Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Medium: Silkscreen
Size: 21 ½ x 13 ⅞ in.
1. Graphos : to write
1. Greek
2. Seri: silk
1. Latin
3. Serigraph Silkscreen Screen-print
Title: San Francisco Silverspot
Artist: Andy Warhol
Date: 1983
Source/Museum: From the Endangered Species series. Courtesy Ronald Feldman
Fine Arts, New York. Photo: D. James Dee. © 2003 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Screenprint
Size: 38 x 38 in.
Title: Marilyn Monroe
Artist: Andy Warhol
Date: 1967
Source/Museum: Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Robert
Gale Doyon Fund and Harold F. Bishop Fund Purchase. 1978-252. © 2003 The Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Silkscreen print
Size: 37 ½ x 37 ½ in.
Title: Dream Horse G
Artist: Fritz Scholder
Date: 1986
Source/Museum: Courtesy of the artist
Medium: Monotype
Size: 30 x 22 in.
monotype