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67 Cards in this Set
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matrix
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a surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred through pressure to a receiving surface such as paper
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edition
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A declared limit to the number of impressions that will be made
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relief
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any printing method in which the image to be printed is raised from a background
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The material most commonly associated with relief printing is
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wood
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The earliest surviving woodcut image was made in ____, this portrayal of the Buddha preaching appears at the beginning of the world's earliest known printed book, a copy of the :
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China, Diamond Sutra
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"Preface to the Diamond Sutra" made by:
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woodcut
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Artist of "The Widow, from War"
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Kathe Kollwitz
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"The Widow, from War" made by:
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woodcut
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Artist of: "Autumn Glory"
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Chao Mei
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"Autumn Glory" made by:
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multiblock woodcut
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registration of the blocks
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made sure that they would align correctly when printed, with no unwanted gaps or overlapping in the colors
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wood engraving
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uses a block of wood as a matrix, but is created on a surface cut across the grain
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Artist of "Workers of the World"
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Rockwell Kent
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"Workers of the World" uses:
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wood engraving
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Linocut
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linoleum cut, very similar to a woodcut. Linoleum is much softer than wood. The relative softness makes linoleum easier to cut, but it also limits the number of crisp impressions that can be produced, since the block wears down more quickly during printing.
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Artist of "Men Are Working in Town"
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John Muafangejo
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"Men Are Working in Town" uses:
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linocut
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Intaglio
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"to cut," exactly the reverse of relief, in that the areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate.
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There are six types of Intaglio printing:
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engraving, drypoint, mezzotint, etching, aquatint, and photogravure
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Engraving
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the oldest of the intaglio techniques, engraving developed from the medieval practice of cutting linear designs in armor and other metal surfaces
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The basic tool of engraving is the:
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burin
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One of the greatest Renaissance printmakers
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Albrecht Durer
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Artist of "Saint Jerome in His Study"
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Albrecht Durer
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"Saint Jerome in His Study" uses:
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engraving
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Drypoint
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is similar to engraving, except that the cutting instrument used is a drypoint needle. The artist draws on the plate, usually a copper plate, almost as freely as one can draw on paper with a pencil. The burr will hold ink along with the incised line, producing a soft, slightly blurred line when printed.
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Artist of: "Spider"
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Louise Bourgeois
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"Spider" uses:
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drypoint
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Mezzotint invented by:
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17th century artist named Ludwig von Siegen, who lived in Utrecht, in the Netherlands
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Mezzotint
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a reverse process, in which the artist works from dark to light. To prepare a mezzotint plate, the artist first roughens the entire plate with a sharp tool called a rocker. If the plate were inked and printed after this stage, it would print a sheet of paper entirely blank, because each roughened spot would catch and hold the ink.
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Artist of: "Untitled (Sequoia and Moon)"
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Vija Celmins
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"Untitled (Sequoia and Moon)" uses:
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mezzotint
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Etching
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is done with acids, which "eat" lines and depressions into a metal plate much as sharp tools cut those depressions in the other methods.
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ground
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an acid resistance substance made from beeswax, asphalt, and other materials used to coat and entire printing plate
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Artist of "Christ Preaching"
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Rembrandt
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"Christ Preaching" uses:
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etching
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Aquatint
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A variation on the etching process, aquatint is a way of achieving flat areas of tone--gray values or intermediate values of color.
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Aquatint was invented:
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around 1650 by a Dutch printmaker named Jan van de Velde
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stopped out
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painted with an acid-resistant varnish
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Artist of: "Asta su Abuelo"
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Francisco de Goya
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"Asta su Abuelo" uses:
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aquatint
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Artist of: "Woman Bathing"
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Mary Cassatt
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"Woman Bathing" is an example of:
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drypoint and aquatint
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Photogravure
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Developed during the 19th century, photogravure is an etching technique for printing photographic images. Like mezzotint, photogravure can print continuous tones, tones that shade evenly from light to dark.
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Artist of: "Counting"
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Lorna Simpson
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"Counting" is an example of:
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photogravure and silkscreen
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inventor of Lithography:
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a young German actor and playwright named Alois Senefelder, used combination of materials: wax, soap, and lampblack
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Lithography is a ____ process, which means:
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planographic, that the printing surface is flat--not raised as in relief or depressed as in intaglio. It depends instead, on the principle that oil and water do not mix.
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To make a lithographic print, the artist first draws the image on the stone with a greasy material--usually a grease-based lithographic crayon or a greasy ink known as by its German name:
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tusche
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matrix of a lithograph:
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slab of stone
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Artist of: "Curtain"
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Philip Guston
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"Curtain" is an example of:
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Lithograph
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Artist of: "Singing Their Songs"
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Elizabeth Catlett
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"Singing Their Songs" is an example of:
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lithograph
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Screenprinting
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The screen is a fine mesh of silk or synthetic fiber mounted in a frame, rather like a window screen. Working from drawings, the printmaker stops out (blocks) screen areas that are not meant to print by plugging up holes, usually with some kind of glue, so that no ink can pass through.
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silkscreen or serigraphy
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"silk writing" in screen printing silk is the traditional material
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Artist of "Standard Station"
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Ed Ruscha
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"Standard Station" is an example of:
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screeprinting
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Monotype
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Are made my an indirect process, like any other print, but, as the prefix "mono" implies, only one print results.
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Artist of: "Life Is a Dream, Then You Wake Up"
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Enrique Chagoya
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"Life Is a Dream, Then You Wake Up" is an example of:
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monotype
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Inkjet
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the inkjet printers used for fine-art prints are more sophisticated versions of the printers that many people have connected to their home computer
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Artist of "Cute Motion!!"
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Fiona Rae
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"Cute Motion!!" is an example of
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Inkjet
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Artist of "You're Never Ready"
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Pepon Osorio
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"You're Never Ready" is an example of:
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inkjet on confetti
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Artist of: "Family Portrait"
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Marilene Oliver
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"Family Portrait" is an example of:
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Bronze-ink screen print on 3mm clear acrylic, bronze rods
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