Exam 13: Printmaking

This process can be used to create a unique printed image,and involves a clean plate of metal or glass on which the artist carefully inks the image before printing.

Match the artwork with its medium: -Francisco Goya,Giant

Images were first reproduced by printmaking in this ancient culture.

This twentieth-century German artist used the natural grain and splintering of the woodblock to make his work Prophet more expressive.

Match the artwork with its medium: -Dox Thrash,Defense Worker

This US government program helped to create jobs for artists (and many other occupations)during the Great Depression and World War II.It allowed African-American artist Dox Thrash and other artists to use their art in support of the country.What was this extensive program called?

This contemporary artist,who once created album covers for the rock band Radiohead,used the softness of linoleum to depict the fictional destruction of Los Angeles.

This intaglio printing process involves carefully and cleanly scoring a metal plate.

Match the artwork with its medium: -Andy Warhol,Four Marilyns

Why do you think that Andy Warhol chose the process of silkscreen printing to depict his subjects,be they famous icons or humble cans of soup? Research silkscreen prints by Warhol.What does the process he used add to the meaning of these artworks? Do you think that they would have been as effective if they were paintings?

A relief print created out of a solid wood block is called ________.

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.

A relief print created out of a sheet of linoleum is called ________.

This artist was most associated with the development of collagraphy,and was a longtime member of the faculty at the University of Washington.

Printmakers Chicago,a commercial printing service,provides craftsmen who __________.

If an artist wanted to create a print that visually resembled brush-and-ink painting,________ would be a good method to use.

A group of prints that are identical and produced in a limited number is called ________.

Match the artwork with its medium: -Albrecht Dürer,Adam and Eve

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.

This female artist practiced monotype printmaking and was a member of a group of abstract painters called The Irascibles.