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  2. Woodblock printing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan Museum of Art. Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e [1] artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period. Invented in China during the Tang dynasty, woodblock printing was widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603 ...

  3. Printmaking - Wikipedia

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    Rembrandt, Self-portrait, etching, c. 1630. Francisco Goya, There is No One To Help Them, Disasters of War series, aquatint c. 1810. Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces.

  4. Ukiyo-e - Wikipedia

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    Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e[a] is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.

  5. Woodblock printing - Wikipedia

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    Woodblock printing. The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, the world's earliest printed text containing a date of production, AD 868 (British Library) Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity ...

  6. Woodcut - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges —leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to ...

  7. Halftone - Wikipedia

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    The first printed photo using a halftone in a Canadian periodical, October 30, 1869 A multicolor postcard (1899) printed from hand-made halftone plates. While there were earlier mechanical printing processes that could imitate the tone and subtle details of a photograph, most notably the Woodburytype, expense and practicality prohibited their being used in mass commercial printing that used ...

  8. Stipple engraving - Wikipedia

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    Stipple engraving is a technique used to create tone in an intaglio print by distributing a pattern of dots of various sizes and densities across the image. The pattern is created on the printing plate either in engraving by gouging out the dots with a burin, or through an etching process. [1] Stippling was used as an adjunct to conventional ...

  9. Hectograph - Wikipedia

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    Although the name "hecto-graph" implies production of 100 copies, in reality the gelatin process produced print runs of somewhere between 20 and 80 copies, depending upon the skill of the user and the quality of the original. At least eight different colors of hectographic ink were available at one time, but purple was the most popular because ...

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