Printmaking

How it began• Used in Egypt

and China as early as 2000 B.C.E; often for text

• Mass produce images for books

• Albrecht Durer’s Large Passion in 1497 first “artwork print”

Relief printmaking

• Woodcut• Linoleum

Felix Vallotton

• French artist; woodcuts in 1890’s

Pablo Picasso

Etching• Scratching into a metal plate, and dipping the

plate in acid to etch in the lines you’ve made

Printmaking in our culture• Playing cards• Text (letter type/ fonts)• Book images (before mass production)• Screen printing on T-shirts

Lithography

• Usually done on aluminum plate or stone; based on drawing and then chemically processing the image into the stone