Deck 7: Printmaking

Question 1

Creating a matrix that then creates a print is a ________ process.

A) Impression
B) Indirect
C) Direct
D) Relief

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Artists do not always have their own printing press and rely on a master printer to print their matrix. When this happens, it makes the print:

A) An edition
B) A proof
C) A collaboration
D) A plate

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The printmaking process can create multiple original images. How do artists make sure that people buying a print are getting an authentic original image?

A) Working with a publisher
B) Using a photomechanical process so the copies are identical
C) Making each copy a little bit different
D) Completing the edition by destroying the matrix

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Why did Marcantonio Raimondi make a print copy of Raphael's Judgment of Paris (figure 7.6)?

A) To spread Raphael's ideas
B) Because printing is a democratic art
C) So it could be more widely seen
D) So it would be a woodcut

Question 5

The free distribution of printed materials is one way prints have been used to:

A) Be multiple originals
B) Make artists famous
C) Avoid censorship
D) Spread ideas

Question 6

An artist might choose to make a print over a painting because of:

A) The ability to make more money
B) The element of uncertainty
C) The ability to have a unique look at their method
D) The pressure from their publisher

Question 7

An artist wanting to make a RELIEF print can use:

A) Woodcut, wood engraving, or linocut
B) Woodcut, wood engraving, or lithography
C) Wood engraving, linocut, or engraving
D) Woodcut, engraving, or a nontraditional matrix

Question 8

How is a wood engraving DIFFERENT from a woodcut?

A) Wood engraving uses a different approach to contrast
B) Wood engraving can make shades of grey
C) Wood engraving has the background print
D) Wood engraving uses thicker lines

Question 9

An artist wants to create a print with lines running in many directions and flat areas of color. Which RELIEF method should the artist use?

A) Woodcut
B) Linocut
C) Wood engraving
D) Engraving

Question 10

An engraving is DIFFERENT from an etching because the engraving method:

A) Uses acid instead of a cutting tool
B) Uses a ground
C) Produces fine lines
D) Uses a cutting tool instead of acid

Question 11

Which technique pushes up a burr?

A) Woodcut
B) Drypoint
C) Lithography
D) Wood engraving

Question 12

If an artist wants to make an INTAGLIO print featuring flat areas of tone, what processes will the artist need to use?

A) Engraving
B) Linocut
C) Aquatint
D) Lithography

Question 13

An artist using a lithographic process can get which effects?

A) Those of a crayon and pastel
B) Those of dry and liquid drawing media
C) Those of graphite and stone
D) None of these

Question 14

What stencil problem did the silkscreen process solve?

A) Freestanding pieces
B) Even distribution of ink
C) Mirror images
D) Registering

Question 15

Computers can allow an artist to make prints using:

A) Digitally made imagery and digital distribution
B) Digitally made matrices and aquatint
C) Digitally made imagery and digitally made matrices
D) Nontraditional matrices and lithography

Question 16

Printmaking is an indirect art.

Question 17

Printmaking is a good way to share ideas with large groups of people.

Question 18

A relief print is made by putting ink in the incised areas.

Question 19

Intaglio prints are always created using acid.

Question 20

Screenprinting is a form of stencil.

Question 21

Since each individual print is usually not as expensive to buy as a one-of-a-kind work of art, often allowing people from all classes to own original prints, printmaking can be considered a ______ art.

Question 22

A relief print that features fluid, free-flowing lines running in any direction and broad areas of flat color was probably made using the ______ technique.

Question 23

An intaglio method that uses a needle to scratch a plate that will create a print with fuzzy, blurred lines is called ______ .

Question 24

Drawing or painting with a greasy material on a flat, limestone slab is one step in a printmaking technique called _________ .

Question 25

Making sure a screenprint's many matrices are aligned is a technique called ______ .

Question 26

Explain how the indirect and collaborative nature of printmaking might be appealing to an artist. Give specific examples.

Question 27

and contrast Ester Hernandez's Sun Mad (figure 7.33) with Käthe Kollwitz's Die Witwe I (The Widow I) (figure 7.15) in terms of the colors, lines, designs, surface qualities, and messages. Considering these characteristics, how do these works of art show why printmaking is ideal for sharing images and ideas with large masses of people?

Question 28

Explain why an artist might choose using aquatint over engraving. Give specific examples.

Question 29

Honoré Daumier's Rue Transnonain (Transnonain Street), 15 April 1834 (figure 7.3) was made using lithography. How might we be able to determine this by looking at it? Give specific examples.

Question 30

What kinds of nontraditional materials can you think of using for a relief print? How might those matrix materials affect the look of the final print?