Which of the following is a printmaking process? |
d. intaglio |
When a printmaker rolls ink onto a raised surface and presses a piece of paper onto it, the resulting image on the paper is known as ________. |
c. an impression |
The earliest existing printed artworks on paper were created in this culture. |
a. China |
This type of printmaking is done by carving away part of a block in order to leave a raised surface that can be inked and printed. |
b. relief |
A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________. |
d. a woodcut |
For his print Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer hired expert craftsmen to ________. |
b. create the block and cut the lines into it |
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many masters of woodblock printing in this country, whose work reflected the lifestyle of an urban cultural class. a. France |
c. Japan |
If an artist were to create a woodblock print with three different colors, how many separate relief blocks would he or she need? |
b. three |
This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive. |
c. Emil Nolde |
To create a color woodblock, such as Hokusai’s famous "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," a printer must produce a new ________ for each separate color. |
a. relief block |
This term for plate printmaking means "cut into" in Italian. a. sgraffito |
intaglio |
This printmaking tool is a sharp instrument used to mark the surface of a plate. |
a.burin |
This intaglio printing process involves carefully and cleanly scoring a metal plate. |
d. engraving |
One advantage of using a metal plate over a woodblock for printmaking is that it ________. |
d. is longer lasting |
This intaglio process is achieved by pulling a burin across the surface of a metal plate, leaving a burr where the ink will collect. |
c.drypoint |
This intaglio process employs acid to mar the surface of a metal plate. |
c. etching |
This intaglio process makes an image that resembles the effect created by water-based media, and uses melted rosin to create an acid-resistant coating. |
a.aquitant |
The wash-like appearance of Goya’s print Giant was created using this process. |
c. aquatint |
This Spanish artist created artworks in both print and paint that depict horrific events that happened during the French occupation of Spain between 1808 and 1814. a. Albrecht Dürer |
d. Francisco Goya |
This intaglio process is achieved by roughening the entire metal plate surface with a rocking tool, then smoothing the areas where the ink is to be wiped away. |
e. mezzotint |
A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________. |
e. an edition |
T hese prints can be made using any print process, but with the intention of creating a unique image rather than an edition. |
a. monoprint |
If you were to carve away the surface of a woodblock, removing the shape of a star, then ink the block and make a print, you would be left with a negative star shape on the paper. |
b.false |
If an artist wants to create a print with very fine detail and precise, even lines, drypoint would be a good method to use. a.True |
b. False |
If an artist wanted to create an image of a bright moon in the night sky using mezzotint, he or she should smooth the burrs on the surface of the plate for the area of the moon. |
b. False |
If you wanted to create a poster that displayed exactly the same information, and could be reproduced in thousands of copies, monoprint would be a good process to use. |
b. False |
Alois Senefelder was a German playwright and printmaker usually credited with the invention of etching. |
b. False |
Registration is the term used for lining up two or more printing blocks or plates so that their impressions line up correctly on a sheet of paper most commonly to create a multi-color image. |
a.True |
The basic, underlying principle of lithography is that oil and water mix well. |
b. False |
Aquatint is a major technique for creating crisp distinct lines in intaglio printmaking. |
a.True |
In relief prints the printed areas are from the raised portion of the block. |
a.True |
If you bought a print with the number 33/1900, what does this mean? |
c. this is the 33rd print of 1900 total print created |
If an artist does not strike or destroy their printing plates is perfectly fine because this allows later generations to continue to obtain great quality works from this master artist. |
b. False |
2.3 Printmaking
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