Pressure + Ink: Lithographic Process Analysis

The printing press is often overlooked when it comes to the impact it had on music and music notation. The first impact the printing press made on music was making reproduction of music more widely available. This made it easy for the average person to read, sing, and play music. The printing press made it possible for composers to distribute their music. This led to the ability to purchase music from varied artist. Finally, the printing press allowed for music to be at social events. With the printing press people could gather with family and friends in informal situations and enjoy each other company. Music became more social and enjoyable, even leading to some people to preform as an entertainer to make money.

The first part of the Ink Bridge is about an Afghan boy named Omed. The violence in this book took me by surprise. In only the first chapter of the book, Omed’s friend Zakir died and Omed’s tongue gets cut off by the Taliban. This introduces the audience to the Taliban and their violent influence on Afghanistan.

Block printing, carved on porcelain, had existed for centuries before making its way to Europe. Some experiments with interchangeable copper type had been carried on in Korea. However, Chinese printing did not advance beyond that, possibly because the Chinese writing system used thousands of characters and was too unmanageable. For centuries after its introduction into Europe, block printing still found little use, since wooden printing blocks wore out quickly when compared to the time it took to carve them. As a result of the time and expense involved in making block prints, a few playing cards and pages of books were printed this way, but little else.

Unfinished Masterpieces by Anita Scott Coleman refers to Coleman’s childhood friend, the sculptor Augusta Savage. She reminisced her childhood growing up with Savage, and how they would have spent hours on their favorite “spot”, where her friend would mold different things out of mud. Coleman described the place they frequented lined up with molded stuffs out of mud. As a kid, she spent hours quietly watching her playmate work with mud with delight on her face. She marveled how she can do such kind of art. Augusta oblivious of the children nearby spent hours working with mud. Coleman described how fragile the mud-molded stuffs. The sun-cured ones break easily when they fall, while the moist ones get deformed easily when touched. She also recalled

Wood block printing is a technique that was originally chinese and then in the Edo period (1603-1867) was widely adopted by japan.

The Medium: Stonepaste molded under a transparent glaze. The work arts is made of Ceramics-Tiles. The work full of blue colors that in fact my favorite color. Second theing I like it about the work the geometic design , as I question my self how they did such agreat work with having comuteer or all that kind of technology that we have it to day.

“I have always made photographs, and the photographs have always...felt like small films...It’s usually a twisted storyline. Like me” (Tracey Moffatt, 1998) Born in 1960 in Brisbane, Tracey Moffatt is an adroit artist with topical and poignant themes. She is arguably one of the most famous Australian artists, and her work consists of many different series of photographs. One of which is her artwork ‘Door Dash 1979’ (1999), in her series Scarred for Life, II (1999) is a photolithograph. The photolithograph is a process used in microfabrication to pattern parts of a thin film or the bulk of a substrate. It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask to a light-sensitive chemical "photoresist", or simply "resist," on the substrate (Margaret Rouse, 2013).

In the 700s they made block printing and it was carved on a single block

Image 1 is a woodcut print produced in Nuremberg, Germany by the German painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer. Image 2 is also a woodblock print produced in Japan by the Japanese Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai. Image 1 was made in 1515 when Nuremberg becomes a printing center in whole Europe. Woodcut printings were very popular at this time. On the other side, image 2 was made between 1830-32 during the Arts and Crafts movement and Art nouveau. The woodblock printing reflects the style of Arts and Crafts movement, also in the print, the geometric small triangular hill within the hallow of the cresting wave, demonstrates the key ideas of Art nouveau movement.

Eric Carle has a very unique and recognizable art technique that he uses in his books. It is called collage technique using tissue paper and hand painted cut outs. Eric Carle uses, sponges, brushes,

At an early stage, E Ink had a broad perspective and considered several market opportunities, both in emerging- and mature industries, as well as different business models, in which all leveraged their unique technology.

The relief printmaking process is the design or print engraved out the material, such as wood. The materical will not be inked and printed. Only the areas which are convexities contain the ink. But the intaglio printmaking process is different from it. The intaglio printmaking process is the design or print engraved into the outside of it, such as a metal plate. Also, it can make the areas which are concavities contain the ink, and then be

It must become repurposed wall art. Selecting the right pattern depends heavily on what you desire. Most distressed wood will not suffice as a masterpiece alone. It must pair itself up with several pieces to achieve the desired art. The patterns and colors to create artwork are limitless, but there is a method to obey. You do need to bind wood together using nails or glue. You do need a pattern (or a message), you do need wood cutting materials, and you do need an outline. Stencils are great to create a letter, word, phrase, or pattern. Using magazines and online photos as inspiration for wall art is a good idea too.

Max Ernst, a painter and sculptor, was a huge innovator of many different art techniques that are still being used today since 1919. In 1919, Ernst entered a period of constant innovation and experimentation where he discovered techniques such as, frottage, grattage, and the manner of Celebes. These techniques became known as Ernst’s personal tradition in painting and would later be the center of his entire career as a painter. The Horde was the product of that creative period in which Ernst employed two techniques that he invented known as frottage and grattage or also known as “rubbing” and “scraping.”

The Relief Printmaking process is a printmaking process in which someone covers a block of material, such as wood, in ink. Then they proceed to deeply etch out the inked surface in the form of a design. Once that is done, they lay paper over the block with pressure so that the ink is shared generously all over the paper. When the paper is removed, the design will have been transferred and they will have the finished artwork. Using a block of wood is known as Woodcut Relief Printmaking, or “Woodcuts”. There are also Wood Engravings, where a stronger type of wood is used so an artist can engrave an image into the surface rather than cut it out. In my opinion, the second step of the process could be left to remain as the art itself. In the video showing the process as Lyell Castonguay created his piece, “Hydra”, I thought the design in the ink coated wood looked more bold and real than the actually piece. But this may only be for the reason that the finished product lacked color in comparison. Of course, Lyell isn’t the only artist who uses this printmaking process. Another artist who uses Relief Printmaking is Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai used the same process to create his color woodcut piece called “South Wind, Clear Sky”, a portrayal of Mount Fuji.