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  2. Chromolithography - Wikipedia

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    The Chromolithograph: A Journal of Arts, Literature, Decoration and the Accomplishments Examples of the Liebig's Company trade cards Commercial website New York Public Library page on printing Archived 2017-12-30 at the Wayback Machine , includes an example Archived 2017-12-30 at the Wayback Machine in which 38 progressive proof prints are made ...

  3. Theory of Colours - Wikipedia

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    Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.. Theory of Colours (German: Zur Farbenlehre) is a book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe about the poet's views on the nature of colours and how they are perceived by humans.

  4. Color printing - Wikipedia

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    A method of full-color printing is six-color process printing (for example, Pantone's Hexachrome system) which adds orange and green to the traditional CMYK inks for a larger and more vibrant gamut, or color range. However, such alternate color systems still rely on color separation, halftoning and lithography to produce printed images.

  5. Lithography - Wikipedia

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    Seriliths are mixed-media original prints created in a process in which an artist uses the lithograph and serigraph (screen printing). Fine art prints of this type are published by artists and publishers worldwide, and are widely accepted and collected. The separations for both processes are hand-drawn by the artist.

  6. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]

  7. Book illustration - Wikipedia

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    Book illustration as we now know it evolved from early European woodblock printing. In the early 15th century, playing cards were created using block printing, which was the first use of prints in a sequenced and logical order. "The first known European block printings with a communications function were devotional prints of saints."

  8. Monochrome printmaking - Wikipedia

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    Coquetry, lithograph by Henri Baron (1816-1885). Monochrome printmaking is a generic term for any printmaking technique that produces only shades of a single color. While the term may include ordinary printing with only two colors — "ink" and "no ink" — it usually implies the ability to produce several intermediate colors between those two ...

  9. John Gast (painter) - Wikipedia

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    John received patents for several lithograph processes and equipment, such as a special lithograph screen that enabled color printing. [8] His company became the Photo-chrome Company and later Grey and Company. He is considered the inventor of the three-color lithograph process. Failing health required him to step back from his business ventures.