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WorksheetsChapter 8 - Printmaking study guide (Intaglio)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is the definition of intaglio printing?
Intaglio 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.
Intaglio printing is where areas below the surface hold the ink.
Intaglio 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.
Intaglio printing is a printmaking technique in which lines and areas to be inkd are recessed below the surface of the printing plate.
Intaglio printing is a technique that requires no cutting of the matrix; it is a surface or planographic printing process.
What is the engraving process?
It is where the artist cut lines into the polished surface of a metal plate with burin, or engraving tool.
It is the process in which grooves are cut into a metal or wood surface with a sharp cutting tool called buring or graver.
It is a method of printing in wood; made with denser wood, cutting into the end of the grain rather than the side.
it is the process in which value areas rather than lines are etched on the printing plate.
Which printmaking process requires the paper to be damp?
Planography
Relief
Intaglio
Stencil
In intaglio printing, what must you do after adding ink to the plate?
Add water with spray bottle
Wipe extra ink from the surface
Wait for it to dry
Use a brayer
Number of prints pulled from a plate, not counting the artist’s proof
Registration
Hammurabi's code
Bench hook
Edition
A means of incising lines in a metal plate with acid for printing in the intaglio technique.
Edition
Etching
Gouge
Block
What is a "Burin?"
A piece of thick, flat material, with a design on its surface, used to print repeated impressions of that design.
a tool for cutting and clearing areas from a block of wood or linoleum.
A tool used by an engraver with a steel shaft and a sharp point at one end and a handle at the other.
Engraving, drypoint, and etching are hte principal intaglio processes.
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False
How did Albrecht Durer made darker areas in The Knight, Death, and the Devil.
By using various types of cross-hatching.
By adding more black ink to the regions that he wanted to be darker.
By adding by hand more ink to the areas after the print was done.
How can we see the complex of richness of engraved lines in Albrecht Durer's engraving?
By looking at the thousands of fine lines that define the shapes, masses, spaces, values, and textures in his complex print.
By looking the variety of printing techniques he used to make his print.
By looking the way he organized the drawing for the final print.
The Knight, Death, and the Devil by Albrecht Durer is showing an image of the noble Christian knight moving with the resolute commitment, unswayed by the forces of chaos, evil, and death that surround him.
True
False
What is the drypoint process?
It is where the artist cut lines into the polished surface of a metal plate with burin, or engraving tool.
It is the process in which grooves are cut into a metal or wood surface with a sharp cutting tool called buring or graver.
It is the process in which lines are scratched directly into a metal plate with steel needle.
It is the process that using a pointed tool with a steel or diamond tip, the artist scratches shallow linees into a soft copper or zinc plate.
What is a burr?
it is the ridge left by sractching a drypoint line in a copper plate; the burr holds the ink.
It is a sheet of paper, cardboard, or metal with design cut out.
It is the total number of prints made and approved by the artist.
What is the etching process?
It is where the artist cut lines into the polished surface of a metal plate with burin, or engraving tool.
It is the process in which a metal plate is first coated with acid-resistant wax or varnish, then scratched to expose the metal to the bit of nitric acid where lines are desired.
It is the process that begins with the preparation of a metal plate, and where the artist paints the surface of the copper or zinc plate with a coating of either wax or varnish that will resist acid.
it is the process in which value areas rather than lines are etched on the printing plate.
Compare the prints by Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt. What distinguishes Rembrandt's print as an etching?
The looser line quality
The shading of the regions
The quality of details
In both Rembrandt's Christ Preaching and Honoré Daumier's Rue Transnonain, the artist draws attention to the main figures through the use of what?
Scale and contrast
The lightness of the focal points.
The details of the faces.
An etching tool may be as thick as a pen, but is more often closer to a needle.
True
False
What is aquatint?
It is an intaglio process in which value areas rathern tha nlines are etched on the printing plate.
It is an antaglio process in which lines are scratched directly into a metal plate with a steel needle.
it is an intaglio process based on the antipathy of oil and water.
It is an intaglio process in which stencils are applied to fabric stretched across a frame.
Why many contemporary intaglio artists are using different chemicals, such as dry citric acid or ferric chloride powders?
Because the acids used in intaglio printing are highly toxic and give off potent fumes.
Because it makes the work easier.
Because those give a better range of colors.
Mary Cassatt used five plates, one for each color in The Letter.
True
False
