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Islamic Print Making 1

This document provides an introduction to different art forms including printmaking, sculpture, painting, and architecture. It then focuses on summarizing various printmaking techniques such as relief printing, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, and monoprinting. Specific details are given on the relief, intaglio, and lithography methods. A brief history of printmaking is also provided, noting its origins in China and later flourishing in 15th century Europe.

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Islamic Print Making 1

This document provides an introduction to different art forms including printmaking, sculpture, painting, and architecture. It then focuses on summarizing various printmaking techniques such as relief printing, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, and monoprinting. Specific details are given on the relief, intaglio, and lithography methods. A brief history of printmaking is also provided, noting its origins in China and later flourishing in 15th century Europe.

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Introduction of

DIFFERENT art FORMS


print making sculpture painting architecture
INTRODUCTION
• True printmaking did not come into existence in
western art until the middle of the 12th century AD ,
after the west learnt the secret of paper making.
• The first prints were in the form of woodcuts and
wood –engravings .
• As tools and techniques improved and new materials
were discovered relief printing became more refined .
• In present times after centuries of improvements and
modifications the thing that leave an impression on a
material is used in printing.
• It can also been described as a complicated process by
which impressions may be transferred to another
surface by means of pressure.

• We must understand that there is no link between


printmaking and the mechanical means of reproducing
commercial images such as posters advertisements ,
• Creative printmaking requires imagination and co-
ordination of the eye ,mind, and hand, combined with
the thorough knowledge and practice of the technical
methods of the medium.
PRINTMAKING
TECHNIQUES
• RELIEF

• INTAGLIO

• LITHOGRAPHY

• SILKSCREEN

• COLLAGRAPH

• MONOPRINT
RELIEF METHOD

• In this process parts of the wood block or metal plate


which are to print blank are left in relief and the rest is
cut away .

• The principal methods of relief are woodcut wooden


graving and linocut.

• To these maybe added techniques such as metal cut


and relief etching.
INTAGLIO METHOD

• THE MOST COMPLEX METHOD OF PRINTING


PROCESSES.

• It is a term which covers multiple techniques, usually a


combination of those used in itching and collagraphy.

• It is considered an effective preliminary to etching for


its sharp fine and precise lines and details.
LITHOGRAPHY
• .IS a process of printing from a flat smooth surface .Areas
to be printed are identified by the thickness of the media
applied .
• Lithography was first introduced by Aloys Senefeler in
1796.
• Prints can be made from lithographic coated paper ,stone
.colour lithography plaster lithography
• THE WORD LITHOGRAPH ii made from the Greek
words litho means stone and graphin means to write.
• In print making the term lithography is referred as a stone
printing process.
monoprint

• A monoprint is an impression taken from a printing


done on a piece of glass metal or any hard non
absorbant smooth surface .

• Only one impression can usually be made from the


painting since an image from one surface is transferred
to another.
IMAGE OF
PRINTMAKING MACHINE
HISTORY OF
PRINTMAKING
HISTORY OF
PRINTMAKING
• Printmaking originated in china after paper was
invented .
• Printmaking first flourished in Europe in 15th century ,
when the process of papermaking was imported from
east.
• Early Buddhists used text and images printed on paper
to disseminate religious ideas .
• Since that time printmaking has been practiced along
with its various techniques as an important form of
fine Arts.
LINOCUT
ETCHING O MATEL
PLATE
RENOWNED
PRINTMAKER ANDY
WARHOL 1960S
RELIEF PRINTING MADE
BY CARVING
LINOLEUN RELIEF PRINT

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