Art Term Print A print is an impression made by any method involving transfer from one surface to another TwitterFacebookEmailPinterest Print techniques Left Right Aquatint Aquatint is a printmaking technique that produces tonal effects by using acid to eat into the printing plate creating sunken areas which hold the ink Drypoint Drypoint is a printmaking process in which a design is drawn on a plate with a sharp, pointed needle-like instrument Engraving Engraving is a printmaking technique that involves making incisions into a metal plate which retain the ink and form the printed image Etching Etching is a printmaking technique that uses chemical action to produce incised lines in a metal printing plate which then hold the applied ink and form the image Intaglio Intaglio describes any printmaking technique in which the image is produced by incising into the printing plate – the incised line or area holds the ink and creates the image Lithography Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them by, while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent Monoprint The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals Offset lithography Offset lithography is a variation of the printing technique lithography Screenprint A variety of stencil printing, using a screen made from fabric (silk or synthetic) stretched tightly over a frame Proof Proof is a printing term applied to all individual impressions made before work on a printing plate or block is completed, in order to check progress of the image Woodcut A method of relief printing from a block of wood cut along the grain Wood engraving A printmaking method distinct from woodcut in that the line is incised into the woodblock, rather than the background being cut away to leave a line in relief Artists who print The grandfather of satire Martin Rowson William Hogarth was one of the founders of a satire that led all the way to the modern comic book and was described as the grandfather of the political cartoon. Martin Rowson revisits Hogarth’s most political details such as Gin Lane. Selected artworks in the collection Left Right [no title] Jenny Holzer 1979–82 Girl with a Fig Leaf Lucian Freud 1947 Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum? Guerrilla Girls 1989 ‘Songs of Innocence’: Title-Page William Blake 1789, reprinted 1831 or later Float Prunella Clough 1950 Four Prints of an Election, plate 4: Chairing the Members William Hogarth, François Antoine Aveline 1758 Sad Shower in New York Tracey Emin 1995 Print A - Version I Ian McKeever 1997 Print at Tate Exhibition PAST EVENT Joan Miró: Printmaker The prints in this exhibition were all made between 1933 and 1963 in Paris, Barcelona and Mallorca, where Miró lived at various times. Tate Liverpool + RIBA North 18 Jun – 26 Aug 1996 Free
