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Chapter Ten: Printmaking

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

• Relief Process

• Woodcut

• Wood Engraving

• Linocut

• Intaglio Progress

• Engraving

• Etching

Works in Progress

Utamaro’s Studio

Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve

The Critical Process

Thinking about Printmaking: Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

This Chapter Will:

• define the term print with regard to the concept of an original print

• differentiate among and outline the basic steps involved in each of the basic

printmaking processes—relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, and monotype

KEY TERMS

print impression states edition

original print linocut etching screenprint

artist’s proof burin aquatint serigraphy

relief intaglio lithography ukiyo-e

MyArtsLab RESOURCES

Closer Look: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve

Primary Source Document: Hokusai – Artists on Art

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION TOPICS

1. Making a Print

Discuss the history of printmaking with attention to the significance of the printing press

and its invention. Demonstrate the fundamental principle associated with a print, the

indirect transfer process. Discuss the basic concept of a rubber stamp to illustrate the

2. Relief and Intaglio

Compare and contrast the variety of relief and intaglio printmaking processes using

examples from the text. Illustrate the unique characteristics of relief wood block printing,

as seen in Emile Nolde’s Prophet (fig. 249) with those of etching, as seen in Rembrandt’s

3. Lithography

Introduce lithography by explaining the definition of the term, as literally meaning ‘stone

writing.” Using Honoré Daumier’s Rue Transnonian (fig. 271), discuss the nature of

political propaganda in 19th-century French society and how artists such as Daumier used

4. Screenprinting and Monotypes

Discuss how screenprinting is closely associated with the process of stenciling. Point out

that some Pop Artists, such as Andy Warhol (figs. 278 & 279), were very attracted to the

CRITICAL THINKING: More Opportunities to Think about Art

1. Works in Progress: Utamaro’s Studio

Japanese color-print artist Kitagawa Utamaro is best known for his portrayals of women

in the ukiyo-e genre (figs. 252, 253, & 257). Ukiyo-e literally means pictures of the

floating world or what Westerners might call genre (everyday people doing everyday

things). Although he enjoyed enormous success during his lifetime, not much is known

2. Works in Progress: Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve (see the Closer Look in

MyArtsLab)

Albrecht Dürer, perhaps the greatest German artist of the Renaissance era, began his

career in Nuremberg with his father, a Hungarian goldsmith who had immigrated to

Germany in 1455. Despite his goldsmith origins, however, by 1484 Dürer had already

3. Works in Progress: June Wayne’s Knockout

June Wayne has worked in the art galleries of Marshall Field and Company in Chicago,

on the easel-painting project of President Roosevelt’s WPA Art Project, as a costume

jewelry designer and stylist in New York City, and as a writer for WGN radio in Chicago.

By the time she acquired her Tamarind Avenue studio in Los Angeles in 1958, she was

requesting support to restore lithography by training master-printers to work with U.S.

artists. At first, the Ford Foundation granted her $165,000 in 1960 to test her plan. In

1962, it awarded her $400,000 more and in 1965 another $700,000 to maintain the

workshop through 1970. Under Wayne’s direction, Tamarind Lithography Workshop

became one of the most important focal points of a general revival of printmaking in the

Wayne’s lithographic works were influenced by the feminist movement (see Knockout,

fig. 274) as well as by discoveries in modern science, especially space exploration (see

Stellar Roil, Stellar Winds 5, fig. 273

3. Thinking about Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe

Andy Warhol’s silkscreens raise fundamental questions about the manner in which

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

1. The Original Print

One of the most intriguing aspects of printmaking is the way it calls into question the idea

of “original” and “one-of-a-kind” works of art. Have students research the prints of

Andy Warhol and write an essay which focuses on his work and the idea of originality.

2. Japonism

The Western world’s fascination with Japan since 1854 (when her ports were forcibly

opened to the rest of the world by the U.S. Navy) has caused almost every major artist up

3. Dürer & Rembrandt

Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt van Rijn are famous for their prints. In an essay, have

students explain the significance of these artists and their print work in art history.

HANDS-ON PROJECTS

For additional project ideas, remember to investigate the Hands-On Projects found on

MyArtsLab.