1. Printmaking
Roshni Patel

2. What is Printmaking?
Printmaking is the art of repetition. It
requires a master plate to create replicas
of it’s design. The design, material, and
the colors are all chosen by the artist and
can be made from a variety of
techniques.

3. History
The first ever relief prints were stamps and cut
seals and brands which were used to mark
prisoners and animals.
Clay tiles, wood, and metals, were the first molds
or plates to paste images and symbols onto skin.

4. First Prints
The first prints recorded, originated in China in
618 to 906 in the T’ang Dynasty. The printing
was done with ink on carved wooden blocks, and
then onto paper. This was called the Diamond
Sutra.

5. Materials
Some of the main materials that are used are
linoleum, Styrofoam, metal, cardboard, and
stone. However, materials vary for each
technique.
An example of Lithography on stone

6. What are the Techniques of
Printmaking?
Relief Printing
Intaglio
Lithography (Planography)
Stencil (Serigraphy)

7. Relief Printing
A design is carved into a block of wood or linoleum
and colour is rolled over it by using a brayer. The
resulting picture comes from the raised surface. The
final image is reversed.
Wood, linoleum, metal, and Styrofoam.

8. Relief: Historical
Applications
Textiles
Decorations
Playing cards
Calendars
Book Illustrations.

9. Famous Relief
Artists
Holbein the Younger
Fred Hagen
Vincent Van Gogh

10. Intaglio Printing
Intaglio is the opposite of relief printing. The ink
is pushed into the lines carved and it is wiped off
the surface of the plate. The final image comes
from the ink in the carved lines. The final image
is reversed.
Metal & Plexiglas

11. Intaglio: Historical
ApplicationsHigh quality magazines
Fabrics
Wallpaper
Postage Stamps
Currency

12. Famous Intaglio Artists
Pablo Picasso
Albrecht Dürer
Francisco Goya.

13. Lithography Printmaking
The image is drawn on limestone, the slab is
treated so that the parts that were drawn onto the
slab attract ink and the rest don’t. It is then sent
through a press. The resulting image is reversed
but it is the same image as the one drawn on the
slab.
Materials: limestone, metal plate.

14. Lithography: Historical
Applications
To create a large amount of prints
Newspapers
Posters
Magazines

15. Famous Lithography Artists
Edvard Munch
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Eugene Delacroix

16. Screen-
Printing
Similar to stencil
The ink pushed through a
stretched screen netting.
The final image is not
reversed.
Samuel Simon from
Manchester, England
invented it.
Paper, fabric, plastic, met
al and much more

17. Screen-Printing Historical
Applications
Screens
Posters
Cloth designs
Patterns
Signs
Textiles
Furniture.

18. Famous Screen-Printing
Artists
Andy Warhol
Ben Shahn
Robert Guathmey.

19. Picture Citations
https://www.etsy.com/market/branding_iron/2
http://www.rightreading.com/printing/gutenberg.asia/images/Diamond-Sutra.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bXNdrXYPZ28/THPRx0Yr71I/AAAAAAAAFVE/NfkLQxKq74w/s1600/Picture+7.png
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Images/9596/gould019_big.jpg
http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72464/873114/Genko_ji_with_Peony_2010_ReliefPrint_16.5x22.jpg
http://mindfuldrawing.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/parceval.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Hiroshige_Van_Gogh_2.JPG
http://www.spielberg-ocr.com/MICR/engraving-us-money.jpg
http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/articles/create/images/f-046-08-a.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FIKLjbsk4hc/Tm7PnwOJqaI/AAAAAAAABRc/Fax-pquBZyE/s640/IMG3.jpg
http://www.jerrythomasart.com/uploads/Jerry_Thomas_Pictures_for_Web__3_681.jpg
http://uploads6.wikipaintings.org/images/alphonse-mucha/art-nouveau-color-lithograph-poster-showing-a-
seated-woman-clasping-the-hand-of-a-native-1903.jpg
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/collection_images/4/488.1993%23%23S.jpg
http://www.legendecelebrityart.com/wp-content/uploads/HENDRIX-PH-SCREEN-small-226x300.jpg

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