This artist produced hundreds of woodcuts and engravings changing the process to an artform as opposed to just basic printing.
Who is Albrecht Durer?
100
A print that is not duplicated. A reverse of the image on the block.
What is Monoprinting?
100
A wooden frame on which a piece of silk or other meshed material is stretched.
What is a Silkscreen?
100
The total number of prints pulled and authenticated by the artist for distribution. The eleventh print in an edition of fifty is numbered as follows 11/50.
What is an edition?
100
The act of organizing the elements of an artwork into a harmoniously unified whole.
What is Composition?
200
He created 448 lithographs, wood cuts and wood engravings... one of his famous woodcuts was titled Metamorphosis II.
Who is M. C. Escher
200
A term for the silkscreen process used to create a fine art print.
What is Serigraphy?
200
A tool consisting of a flat wooden bar with a rubber blade used to apply the ink or paint in stencil printing.
What is a Squeegee?
200
A "sample" print reserved by the artist for his own record or use, excluded from the numbering of the edition. They are marked A/P for artist proof.
What is an Artist Proof?
200
The effects that may result when the art elements are structured to achieve a successful composition.
What are the Principles of Design?
300
Durer often signed his finished works with his distinctive AD monogram which was accompanied by a date. This represented both the initials of his name and the date heading 'Annon Domini' which is the Latin for...
What is the year of our Lord
300
A copy of an original piece of artwork, such as a painting, that is printed, or reproduced many times by means of a commercial photographic process.
What is Photo silkscreen?
300
Used as a template...it is made by cutting out sections from paper with an X-acto knife.
What is a Stencil?
300
The ink-transferred image on a piece of printing paper.
What is an impression?
300
This defines the portion of a visual design that attracts attention because of it's differences...
What is emphasis?
400
"...he was inspired most of all by Degas from whose work he absorbed the value of asymmetrical composition..."
Who is Edward Hopper?
400
A series or proof of a multicolor print showing each color on a separate sheet.
What are Color separations?
400
In stencil printing, an area in the design like the inner circle of the letter Q that will be cut loose from the stencil, unless it is attached in some way (i.e. by a bridge).
What is an Island?
400
The reliance on instincts, whether learned or innate, for natural sensing and feeling rather than reliance on exact rule.
What is instinct?
400
Avoid placing the focal point dead center.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
500
Both sets of her grandparents were slaves. She was encouraged by her famous artist tutor, Grant Wood to paint what she really knew.
Who is Elizabeth Catlett
500
A copy of an original piece of artwork, such as a painting, that is printed, or reproduced many times by means of a commercial photographic process.
What is a reproduction.
500
The materials, such as oil, watercolor, etc., used to create an artwork; or a category of art such as drawing, painting, or sculpture.
What is the medium?
500
To cover or roll with printing ink.
What is charge?
500
Run elements off of the edges rather than keeping every part confined by the edge of the picture plane.