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drypoint
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
drypoint. A printmaking method in which the design...when the plate is wiped, giving to the drypoint line its characteristic rich and velvety...variation in pressure of the artist's hand. Drypoint is therefore a more spontaneous and personal...
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etching
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...combined with other processes, particularly drypoint ; by this means additional work may be...without re-laying the ground, and the drypoint lines also provide a convenient method...medium of etching alone. Later he added drypoint to the etched lines, and finally he...
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burr
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...the cutting tool (in line engraving or drypoint ) and also to the overall sandpaper...required, the burr is removed, but in drypoint it is allowed to remain because the soft...foundation of the process. With both drypoints and mezzotints, only a limited number...
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print
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...which the design is engraved on the metal plate with a burin ; drypoint , where the lines are drawn by scratching the plate with a...Rembrandt , for example, frequently combined etching and drypoint.(c) Planographic Methods . In these the design is neither...
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Morisot, Berthe
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...technique, and was also an excellent marine painter. Her watercolours are as accomplished as her oils, and in addition she produced pastels, drypoints, and lithographs. She was renowned for her beauty and charm and often posed for Manet.
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Bone, Sir Muirhead
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Bone, Sir Muirhead (1876–1953). British draughtsman, printmaker (drypoint was his favourite medium), and occasional painter, mainly of architectural subjects. He studied architecture and painting in...
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Dix, Otto
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...strength with his great achievements of the 1920s. Dix made prints in a variety of techniques—woodcut, etching, drypoint, lithography—and has been described as ‘together with Beckmann … the dominant figure in the...
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Auerbach, Frank
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...building sites reflects the destruction he saw around him in his childhood. From the mid-1950s Auerbach has also made prints (drypoints, etchings, and screenprints), his subjects including nudes and portraits. There was a major Arts Council exhibition of...
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mezzotint
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...etched lines are sometimes introduced if greater definition is required; this procedure is known as mixed mezzotint. Like drypoint , mezzotint yields only a small number of good impressions before the burr wears down. Mezzotint was invented in the Netherlands...
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Cassatt, Mary
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...an outstanding pastellist and printmaker, her finest prints being in colour and in a combination of techniques (aquatint, drypoint, etching). Their bold flattened forms and unconventional viewpoints were influenced by an exhibition of Japanese prints...
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