Printmaking
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Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. The process is capable of producing multiple copies of the same piece, which is called a print. Each copy is known as an impression. Painting or drawing, on the other hand, create a unique original piece of artwork. Prints are created from a single original surface, known technically as a matrix.
Each print is considered an original work of art, not a copy. Works printed from a single plate create an edition, in modern times usually each signed and numbered to form a limited edition. Prints may also be published in book form, as artists' books. A single print could be the product of one or multiple techniques.
Role in the history of the visual arts: democratic means of distribution.
Noted printmakers
- Odilon Redon
- William Blake
- Albrecht Dürer
- Hendrick Goltzius
- William Hogarth
- Martin Schöngauer
- Gustave Doré
- Roland Topor
- Jacques Gautier d'Agoty
- Fornasetti
- Jacques Callot
- José Guadalupe Posada
See also
- Quatre siècles de Surréalisme (1973) by Pierre Belfond