Art Quiz 3 - Printmaking

______________ is an image that the artist manually printed or had printed under his/her direct supervision from the original matrix, a stone, block, plate, screen, etc., that was made by the artist.

A original print

hatcher H
burin C
lift-ground E
photo silkscreen I
print A
gauffrage G
incised B
aquatint J
squeegee D
planographic F

A. transferred image
B. cut into with a sharp tool
C. sharp pointed cutting tool used for engraving
D. rubber bladed tool used in serigraphy
E. solution of sugar and water creates a nonlinear etching
F. printing from a flat surface
G. inkless intaglio
H.

A reproduction is _________________

a duplicate or copy of an existing original artwork.

A monotype differs from all other printmaking techniques because ____.

it only yields a single, unique image

Aquatint is frequently used along with line etching to mimic the effects produced by ____.

wash drawings

Etching is a very versatile medium. In Henri Matisse's Loulou in a Flowered Hat, he used ____ to represent the essential features of a woman.

only a few uniformly etched lines

Etching is an intaglio process in which the matrix is covered with a waxy substance and the design is drawn into this substance. The completed matrix drawing is then put into a(n) ____.

acid bath that etches the exposed areas of the matrix

In The Painter and His Model, Picasso was able to approximate the effects of mezzotint with a much simpler technique known as ____.

aquatint

In Paul Landacre's Growing Corn, we see a good example of the ____ that can be obtained from the skillful use of wood engraving.

precise lines and tonal gradations

In creating his Christ Crucified between Two Thieves, Rembrandt used a drypoint needle in order to create ____.

soft, velvety lines

In the ____ process, the artist creates clean-cut lines on a plate of copper, zinc, or steel by forcing a sharp burin across the surface with the heel of the hand

engraving

Lithography, invented in the beginning of the 19th century by a German playwright, is a planographic, or ____, printing process in which a ____ is used

surface; stone slab

Mezzotint is rarely used because ____.

it is a painstaking and time consuming procedure

Serigraphy, or silkscreen, was first developed for use as a(n) ____ medium, a fitting medium because Pop artist ____ used it to create Four Multi-colored Marilyns.

commercial; Andy Warhol

The 20th-century American abstract artist Josef Albers created Solo V, an inkless intaglio technique known as ____.

gauffrage

The oldest form of printmaking is ____, and most likely the first people to use it were the ancient ____.

woodcut; Chinese

____ is the only printmaking process in which prints can be rendered in paint as well as ink.

serigraphy

The popularity of relief printing declined with the introduction of the ____ process, which did not appear until the 15th century.

intaglio

The working surface from which a print is made is called a ____.

matrix

Which of the following types of printmaking is not an essentially linear media?

mezzotint

Woodcuts make use of the flat surface of wooden boards, but wood engravings use the end sections of the boards, yielding a ____ surface.

hard, non-directional