Printmaking
판화
Art made by cutting, etching, or drawing an image on a plate or block, inking it, and pressing it onto paper; one plate can usually print many sheets.
01About
Prints fall roughly into four kinds. Relief printing cuts away what is not wanted and inks the raised surface, as in woodcut; intaglio fills with ink the lines cut or bitten with acid into a metal plate, as in etching; lithography relies on oil and water repelling each other; and screenprinting pushes ink through a mesh. Goya's Disasters of War uses etching for the lines and aquatint for areas of tone; its 82 plates were made between 1810 and 1820 but only published in 1863. Kim Jeong-ho's Daedongyeojido of 1861 is a map printed from woodblocks. There are exceptions: a monotype is painted on a smooth plate and printed only once, so each one is unique.
02In the gallery
Read the technique on the label (woodcut, etching, lithograph, screenprint, monotype), then look closely below the image for a pencilled number and signature, such as 14/50.
Wall label terms in Korean
- 볼록판(목판)
- Relief (woodcut)
- 오목판(에칭)
- Intaglio (etching)
- 애쿼틴트
- Aquatint
- 모노타이프
- Monotype
03Notes
Prints come from relief, intaglio, planographic, and stencil plates, and each leaves different lines and ink.
From the lines and the ink, which kind of plate do you think it was? What told you?