The more you understand about the process of making prints the more you'll value and appreciate the quality of a fine print.
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How Are Prints Made?
This fantastic little resource is by way of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Great to visually understand the various processes of print making and printing. The interactive animation is very entertaining, and the print examples come from reknowned sources. Even if you know a bit about print making, you are sure to learn something new.
How Fine Prints Are Made --> What is a Print?
Printmaking Processes: Lithography
Lithography is one of the oldest graphic techniques, developed over 200 years ago in Europe. The name itself has Greek origins, lithos (stone) and grapho (to write) and is one of the most complex art techniques and one of the most autographic of all the print techniques. Lithography has the ability to recreate the very fine nuance, the bold stroke of a pencil or brush with its characteristic qualities intact. Modeling, tonality and the immediacy of the artist's hand are all preserved throughout the process. Lithography has become the technique of preference for many artists both past and present. The aim of this program is to give students and professionals a way to experience the methods of this technique by providing an essential textbook of the different stages of imaging.
Screenprinting: The artist creates a stencil and applies it to a piece of fabric (the screen) stretched over a wooden frame. Ink is pulled across the screen with a squeegee and forced through the openings in the stencil onto a sheet of paper below.
Printmaking Processes: Intaglio
Intaglio: The lines of the image are incised, or cut, into a metal plate. This can be done with sharp tools, as in engraving, or with acid, as in etching and aquatint. Ink is applied and forced into the incised areas. Ink remaining on the surface is removed, and the plate is ready for printing.
Printmaking Processes: Relief
The artist carves the image on a block of wood or linoleum, cutting away some areas and leaving others raised (in relief). Ink is applied with a roller, which contacts only the raised areas, leaving the cutaway parts uninked. The block can be printed by hand or on a printing press.
THE PRINTWORLD DIRECTORY
London Arts Group was a major publisher of many of the notable emergent graphic artists of the time. The Print World Directory - the authoritative guide to limited edition prints - lists several hundred publications by London Arts, Inc.. London Arts print publications are held in the permenant collections of countless important museums worldwide
Print World Directory Home Page
We Offer Custom Framing
We are pleased to announce the addition of new custom gallery-quality framing options for any prints purchased from our gallery.
Our framing is done 'in-house' by our experienced expert so we are able offer you attractive frame options at prices far below any retail framer's price.
Contact us for an estimate on framing any print or poster featured on our website.
Berengo Fine Arts - Murano Italy
A wonderful, though difficult to navigate, FLASH site which has beautiful photographs of original glass sculptures. Click on the Logo on the opening page and then--skip the intro page with the arrow at the right top --
Many of these artist are available exclusivly in the USA via London Arts Group's web site... Inquire with us directly for any purchase information.
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Fine Print Glossary
Useful words, terms and abreviations to help you better understand the world of fine prints. Glossary of Fine Prints
The Tate Museum
Many of the British Printmakers featured on this site are also are held in the collections of the Tate Museum. It is arguably the most important modern art collection in the UK.
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Artcyclopedia
A good general source of information about various artists & art movements
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Art Museum Network
The Official Website of the World's leading art museums since 1997.
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