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The original copy-paste, invented centuries before anyone had a clipboard.
means Printmaking is the art of creating images by transferring ink from a prepared surface — like a carved woodblock, etched metal plate, or stone — onto paper or fabric, usually to produce multiple copies of the same design.
from A plain compound of "print" and "making." "Print" comes through Old French "preinte," meaning a pressed impression, from Latin "premere," "to press" — the same root that pushes through "press" and "pressure." The word literally describes the act: you press something, and an image is left behind, born from that pressure.
- oldest medium
- Woodblock prints predate the Gutenberg press by centuries
- backwards art
- Everything must be carved mirror-reversed to print correctly
- acid bath
- Etching uses acid to bite lines into metal
- limited runs
- Editions are numbered, then the plate is destroyed
- durer's empire
- Albrecht Durer built fame selling affordable engravings
for instance
warhol's marilyn diptych — andy warhol's 1962 silkscreen print series of marilyn monroe, iconic pop art work