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Woodcut Research Paper

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Printmaking is a work of art made up of ink on paper and existing in multiple examples, moreover, a print is created through an indirect transfer process when the artist starts by drawing a composition on another surface by placing a sheet of paper in contact with the drawn surface and then is run through a printing press. By doing a work of art in this way is that numerous impressions can be made as new papers and can be sent through the press in the same way. In this case, the artist should decide how many to make and that total number of impressions is called an edition, which is then signed by the artist. For the reason that there is more than one example, many people may have these prints. Throughout the long history of the medium, different …show more content…

This process was originally used to stamp out sketches on fabrics and textiles which was also used in the Middle Ages to make functional items. Western artists made woodcut prints for centuries. Woodcutting was the primary artistic tool for expressionists. The making of a woodcut is an uncomplicated and easy process, it's a composition on a plank of wood sketched by an artist, using gouges, chisels, and knives cut away pieces from the block, and then applying ink to the surface of the block with a roller, and finally placing the paper over the block, which is then run through a press. Hence, woodcut is the most important relief process, in which the image or design is cut out of a …show more content…

In the United States, the screen printing process is often called color printing, this is a print that is created by a screen made of silk or a metal mesh extending over a frame whose design is provided by a stencil on the screen and a squeegee pulled through the ink strength through the open area on the paper. This process was used for the first time in 1930. The process was used as a fine art medium and the term serigraph was coined to distinguish screenprints made by an artist from screenprints produced for commercial

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