A surface on which a design is prepared before being transferred to a receiving surface such as paper.
What is matrix?
100
This is the number of impression that will be made.
What is edition?
100
This describes any printing method in which the image to be printed is raised from the background.
What is relief?
100
This is the year Kathe Kollwitz was born.
What is 1867?
200
When the artist first draws a desired image on a piece of wood, then all areas that are not wanted are cut out so the image stands out, and then finally the block is pressed on paper to make the image bright.
What is making a woodcut?
200
This is the image left on the surface after the image has been pressed to the paper.
What is impression?
200
This is where the earliest surviving woodcut image was made?
What is China?
200
This is what makes sure the picture is aligned correctly when printed with no unwanted gaps or overlapping colors.
What is registration?
300
This is Kathe Kollowitz obsession.
What is death?
300
This was Kathe Kollwitz's focus while in school.
What is line?
300
These are the three historical methods for making art prints.
What is relief, intaglio, and lithography?
300
This is the number of prints in the portfolio called "War"
What is seven?
400
These are the five major themes that dominate Kathe Kollwitz art.
What is the artist herself, the ties between mothers and their children, the hardships of the working classes, the unspeakable cruelties of war, and death?
400
This is the artist that created "Autumn Glory"
Who is Chao Mei?
400
This is the time of when many distinct regional styles came about in Chinese print making.
What is 20th Century?
400
This is when an edition is destroyed so that no further prints can be made from it.