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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 metal plate by the cutting tool (in line engraving or drypoint ) and also to the overall sandpaper-like roughening of the...maximum sharpness is required, the burr is removed, but in drypoint it is allowed to remain because the soft, velvety quality...
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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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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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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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Cassatt, Mary
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...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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mezzotint
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...the few eminent artists to make original creative use of the medium rather than reproducing someone else's designs. Like drypoint , mezzotint yields only a small number of good impressions before the burr wears down. The technique virtually died out in...
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