Printmaking - Japanese Ukiyo-e, Woodblock, Color

printmaking

Table of Contents

Introduction
Major techniques of printmaking
- Relief processes
  - Woodcut
  - Colour woodcut
  - Wood engraving
  - Linoleum cut
  - Metal cut
  - Cardboard (paper) cut
  - Relief etching
  - Rubbing
  - Dotted print (criblé)
- Intaglio processes
  - Engraving
  - Drypoint
  - Mezzotint
  - Crayon manner and stipple engraving
  - Etching
    - Hard-ground etching
    - Soft-ground etching
    - Relief etching
    - Aquatint
    - Lift-ground etching (sugar-lift aquatint)
    - Acids and the etching process
  - Metal graphic
  - Printing by intaglio processes
    - Intaglio colour printing
    - Stencilled colours with an intaglio plate
    - Intaglio and surface colour with relief etching
- Surface-printing processes
  - Lithography
  - Stencil processes
- Special techniques
  - Monoprint (monotype)
  - Cliché-verre
  - The cellocut
  - Collagraphy
  - Plaster print
- Process prints
  - Linecut
  - Halftone cut or plate
  - Rotogravure
  - Offset lithography
- Contemporary experimentation
- Mounting and care of prints
History of printmaking
- Printmaking in the 15th century
  - Germany
  - Italy
  - Other countries
    - The Netherlands and Burgundy
    - France
- Printmaking in the 16th century
  - Germany
  - Other countries
    - The Netherlands and Flanders
    - Italy
    - France
  - Trends in the late 16th century
- Printmaking in the 17th century
  - Portrait engraving
    - France
    - Germany
    - The Netherlands
    - England
  - Flemish printmaking
  - European etching
    - Italy
    - The Netherlands
  - Japanese ukiyo-e prints
- Printmaking in the 18th century
  - Italy
  - England
  - Spain
  - France
  - Japan
- Printmaking in the 19th century
  - France
  - Japan
  - Other countries
- Printmaking in the 20th century
  - France
  - Germany
  - Other countries

References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Images & Videos

Master of the Playing Cards: A Poet Reading

Antonio Pollaiuolo: Battle of the Naked Men

Robert Nanteuil: Marin Cureau de la Chambre

Hercules Seghers: The Rocky River Landscape

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Grand Piazza

For Students

printmaking summary

Read Next

Blank canvas in an artist's studio. Art; oil paints; brushes; artists' tools

6 Contemporary Artists Who Redefined Their Mediums

"Self-Portrait Etching at a Window" etching (drypoint and burin in black on ivory laid paper) by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1648; in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Explore the Beauty of Oil Paintings with These 5 Works by Rembrandt

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

Discover

The Sun Was Eaten: 6 Ways Cultures Have Explained Eclipses

Solar Eclipse, Eclipse, Solar Flare, Outer Space, Astronomy

What Causes Lunar and Solar Eclipses?

Albert Einstein in Washington, D.C. c. 1921-1923. Physicist

The Solar Eclipse That Made Albert Einstein a Science Celebrity

Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

Vietnam War Timeline

After a perfect launch, spectators try to catch a last glimpse of Space Shuttle Columbia, barely visible at the top end of the twisted column of smoke.

7 Accidents and Disasters in Spaceflight History

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Until the 17th century, Japanese painting was completely dominated by Chinese influence. The Japanese silk paintings and screens of idealized landscapes were hardly distinguishable from their Chinese counterparts. Then, in the early 17th century, an artist of aristocratic origin, Iwasa Matabei, started to paint images related to his environment and personal experience. Although this era of Japanese art history is rather obscure, he is credited with being one of the founders (along with Iwasa Matabei II and Iwasa Matabei of Otsu) of ukiyo-e, whose woodcuts of the “floating world” or the world of everyday life represented a drastic break with ...(100 of 20091 words)

Access the full article

Help support true facts by becoming a member.