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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
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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
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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
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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.
Suggested Videos and DVDs:
A World of Art: Works in Progress, June Wayne (30 minutes)
Albrecht Dürer: Image of a Master (20 minutes)
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