PRINTMAKING
SIMPLIFIY THE OBJECT
WE WILL DISCUSS:
THE HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING
PROJECT:
LINOCUT
ARTISTS:
BANKSY
KIETH HARING
ANDY WARHOL
PERIOD OF ART:
POP ART
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING
• The earliest known origin of printing is traceable to Chinese scribes
in the first century, who developed moveable type.
• The Chinese are also credited with the invention of paper
– The Chinese could reproduce dozens or even hundreds of duplicate
documents.
– The information was only available to the wealthy or elite classes.
– Even though the idea was revolutionary it did not spread throughout the
world.
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• The early " revolution" of moveable printing failed to ignite the world.
• The process of producing printed versions of Chinese texts was more time
consuming than traditional hand-inscribing.
• Storing the thousands of characters in the Chinese alphabet was a problem.
• Pen and oil-based ink was more efficient.
HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING
JOHANNES GUTENBERG 1436
• Johannes Gutenberg
1436 was a profit-minded
goldsmith from Southern
Germany.
• His motivation was personal
profit: he hoped to get rich by
mass-producing the Church's
ever-popular "indulgences".
JOHANNES GUTENBERG
• The Guttenberg Bible – (The number of lines of text on each page.) was printed
two pages at a time for 1300 pages.
• Gutenberg adapted a wine press of the day to use in assembling pages.
THE PRINTING PRESS
• The amount of information in one Sunday New York Times is greater than the
amount of information an 18th century person in England would be exposed to in
his lifetime.
PRINTMAKING AND
ART
•
A few decades after woodcut, metal engraving started. It
was an art that only the goldsmiths and weapon makers
used. The earliest printed engraving is from 1446 which
is a German print. Germany gets the credit for developing
intaglio printing from where it made its way to Italy and
the Low Countries.
PRINTMAKING AND ART
•In the 17th
century,
printing was
seen as
ornamental
decorations
all over
Europe. This
form of
printmaking
was primarily
used for
decorating
portraits and
paintings.
Intaglio
printing at
this time was
done with the
help of acid
as artists at
that time
considered it
to be a work
of creativity.
THE PASSAGE OF TIME
•
As the New World ( America ) grew in importance so did the media of printed communication.
• Gutenberg's technology did not change for 400 years.
• The next revolution was the invention of continuous rolls of paper.
• Print availability to the public jumped astronomically.
THE PRINTING PROJECT
YOU ARE GOING TO SIMPLIFI Y AN
OBJECT AND CARVE IT OUT OF A
PIECE OF LINOLEUM.
THE INK THE LINOLEUM PLATE
AND PRINT IT ONTO A PIECE OD
PAPER.
WHY DO YOU THINK ARTIST CREATE A PRINT RATHER THEN ANOTHER MEDIUM…LIKE DRAWING OR
PAINTING?
WOOD BLOCKS ARE USED
OTEN IN PRINTMAKING, BUT
PERCISION IS DIFFICULT
LINOCUT
. LINOLUEM IS AN ESSIER
SURFACE TO WORK WITH AND
ALLOWS A MORE ACCURATE
CUT…
LINO CUT EXAMPLES
PRINTING PROJECT: SIMPLIFY AN
OBJECT…ARTISTS THAT SIMPLIFY OBJECT
KIETH HARING...BANKSY...WARHOL
WHO ARE THESE ARTIST AND WHAT TYPE OF WORK DID THEY CREATE?
BANKSY
KEITH HARING
ANDY WARHOL
POP ART
is an ART MOVEMENT that emerged in the mid 1950s in BRITAIN and in the late
1950s in the UNITED STATES. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual
commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of FINE ART. Pop removes the material from its
context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not
as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it
POP ART & PATTERN…YOUR PRINTING PROJECT MUST COMBINED A SIMPLIFIED IMAGE
AND PATTERN
TIME TO GET TO WORK…GET
OUT YOUR OBJECT AND
SKETCHBOOK
CREATE 4 QUICK SKETCHES…OF WHAT YOU THINK YOU WHAT YOUR PRINT TO
LOOK LIKE…
WHEN I APPROVE IT, I WILL GIVE YOU A PIECE OF TRACING PAPER TO START YOU
FINAL DESIGN