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drawing with acid, where the artist commits and the chemistry finishes the argument.
means A print or design made by cutting lines into a metal plate with acid, then inking the grooves and pressing them onto paper.
from From the Dutch 'etsen,' to etch, borrowed in the 1600s as printmakers across the Low Countries refined the craft. 'Etsen' is a cousin of the German 'ätzen,' to corrode or eat away — both tracing back to a Germanic root meaning 'to cause to eat,' since the acid is literally devouring the metal where the artist's needle bared it.
- acid bath
- Lines are bitten into metal by corrosive acid
- Rembrandt obsessed
- He made nearly 300 etchings, reworking plates obsessively
- armor origins
- Technique began as decoration for medieval armor and weapons
- reversed image
- Prints come out mirrored from the drawn plate
- semiconductor cousin
- Modern chips are etched with acid at microscopic scale
rembrandt's self-portraits — dutch master created over 100 etchings of himself between 1629-1669
piranesi's prisons — italian printmaker's 'carceri d'invenzione' series of 16 monumental architectural etchings, 1745-1761