Chapter 8 - Printmaking study guide (Relief)

What is the definition of relief printing?

• Relief printing is where the artists creates the matrix by cutting away all parts of the printing surface not meant to carry ink; this leaves the design "in relief" at the level of the original surface.

• Relief printing is where areas below the surface hold the ink.

• Relief printing is a family of printing methods where a printing block, plate or matrix that has had ink applied to its surface, but not to any recessed areas, is brought into contact with paper.

• Relief printing is where the printing is done from ink that is below the surface of the plate.

• Relief printing is a technique that requires no cutting of the matrix; it is a surface or planographic printing process.

What are the oldest relief prints?

• Woodcuts

• Wood engraving

• Linocuts

What do we mean when we talk about a matrix in printmaking?

• Matrix is where the ink is carried and where artists create prints by pressing or overlaying the matrix onto the print surface.

• Matrix is an artwork that exists in multiple copies.

• Matrix is the block of metal, wood, stone,or other material that an artist works to create a print.

• Matrix is printing in three dimensions.

What is the woodcut process?

• Woodcut is a type of relief print made form a plank of relatively soft wood; the artists carves away the negative spaces, leaving the image in relief to take the ink for printing.

• Woodcut is a method of relief printing in wood; made with denser wood, cutting into the end of the grain rather than the side.

• Woodcut is a method of relief printing in wood based on the antipathy of oil and water.

• Woodcut is a type of relief print made from wood in which value areas rather than lines are etched on the printing plate.

Why would Utagawa Hiroshige have needed to be careful in his registration in creating Shono hakuu (Light Rain at Shono)?

• Because it required multiple blocks of color.

• Because it was difficult to transfer the ink to a paper.

• Because of its roughness.

• Because of the atmospheric effects of the rain.

How did Utagawa Hiroshige apply a precise registration in Shono hakuu (Light Rain at Shono)?

• By removing details to get the colors in the right position.

• By carefullying lining up the paper to ensure that colors will be exactly placed in the final print.

• By using a small amount of colors, making it easier.

• By alining the impressions of blocks on the same sheet of paper,

How did Kirchner most probably achieve the strong black and white contrasts in Port Scene?

• By cutting and gouging vertically with the wood grain.

• By avoiding to put ink in the white regions.

• By removing some details of the final print.

What is the wood engraving process?

• Wood engraving is a type of relief print made form a plank of relatively soft wood; the artists carves away the negative spaces, leaving the image in relief to take the ink for printing.

• Wood engraving is a method of relief printing in wood; made with denser wood, cutting into the end of the grain rather than the side.

• Wood engraving is a method of relief printing in wood based on the antipathy of oil and water.

• Wood engraving is a type of relief print made from wood in which value areas rather than lines are etched on the printing plate.

Which of the following artist was one of the early pioneers of wood engraving?

• William Blake

• Erns Ludwig Kirchner

• Utagawa Hiroshige

• Albrecht Durer

What technique of printmaking was used in Boy Returning Joyfully, with Plough and Oxen?

• Wood engraving

• Woodcut

• Linocut