Printmaking is a wide array of techniques, technologies, and disciplines used to transfer an image from a matrix to a surface, usually paper or a textile. Relief printing, like wood block printing, removes areas that the artist doesn't want to transfer and ink is rolled or painted onto the remaining surface, and intaglio printing does the opposite, engraving or etching lines into copper or zinc plates which hold the ink for transfer. More recently, lithography uses water to repel oily ink from negative spaces, and screen printing is used to make all your graphic tees.
Taking printmaking to the next level
1471 – 1528
The first space race
1596 – 1665
Making a living from etchings
1720 – 1778
This guy invented stippling
1482 – 1515
Father of Horror, Father of Fantasy
1832 – 1883
The master of woodcuts
1943 – 1987
Titan of Printmaking
1445 – 1491
Dueling identities
1500 – 1535
The reason Henry Fuseli got famous
1773 – 1849
Your actions leave a mark
1606 – 1669
A printmaker analyzes taste — and beauty comes out on top
1697 – 1764
