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aquatint
aquatint Method of engraving on metal plates. Aquatint was invented in the mid-18th century to imitate the effect of brush drawing or watercolour. It involves sprinkling a plate with fine grains of acid-resistant resin, fusing the resin to the metal (modern enamel spray makes this unnecessary), and letting acid bite around and through some of the grains. Printmakers can achieve extremely varied effects depending on the thickness of the resin and the immersion time. Aquatint enables line engraving or drawing on the resin with an acid-resistant varnish.
Goya and
Picasso were masters of the process.
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SILK AQUATINT: PAINTERLY GRAPHICS EIGHTEEN ARTISTS EXPLORE NEW MEDIUM
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/7/2008; 650 words
; ...Caribbean and in New York explore silk aquatint, a graphic process at the borderline...printmaking. A hybrid technique, silk aquatint, also known as "polyester collagraph...Aguatinta: grafica pictorica/Silk Aquatint: Painterly Graphics features the work...
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From "postmaster" to "aquatint"; the audacious raids of British commando 1941-1943.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 454 words
; 2915762058 From "postmaster" to "aquatint"; the audacious raids of British commando 1941-1943. Fournier...operation conducted at Normandy, France, that was dubbed "Aquatint." ([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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A passionate collector
Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...It is one of four aquatint series. I liked it...from each of the four aquatint series. (Aquatints have a wonderful depth...fake. "It was an aquatint of the crucifixion...of black and white aquatints called Miserere. It...
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Art Work of Modern Master Picasso to be Shown at Park West Gallery In Southfield: Famous Contemporary Artist Radically Changed the Nature Of Art More Than any Other.
PR Newswire; 8/22/2000; 700+ words
; ...Franco's Dream and Lie, the sugar aquatints for Buffon's Histoire Naturelle, and...Cesaire's Corps Perdui; in 1952 the aquatints, Woman at the Window. From 1953 to 1957 came his aquatints, line engravings and lithographs called...
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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Bob Craig's relief prints are magically, environmentally moving.
Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA); 7/6/2006; 700+ words
; ...etching with soft ground and aquatint, is a curiously cinematic...River," a color etching/aquatint, features a vivid parchment...Michael DiCerbo etches, aquatints and drypoints skycrapers as...machinery. These hand-colored aquatints are so delicately scaled...
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Rich record of the Malay world
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 3/12/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...lithographs, engravings and aquatints) range from the Glugor...1873) to Lady Raffles' aquatint Memoirs (1830), the...landmark Scenery of 144 aquatints, from the late 18th...Journal, and a rare aquatint, Entrance of the Linggy...
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EXHIBIT SHOWCASES STUDIO'S EXPLORATION OF THE ART OF THE PRINT FOUNDER FUELS THE TALENTS OF MANY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...a series of color aquatints, a kind of etching that...Night" are spit-bite aquatints and dry point with chine colle. If Hansen's aquatint echoes acrylic paint...he built them up with aquatint and drypoint. They...
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Big money in photographs
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 4/19/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...million dollars; a Mary Cassat aquatint in color $120,000; a bold...lithographs, some gestural Matisse aquatints of simplified heads at up...famous Picasso etching and aquatint La Femme au Tambourin 1938...1890-91, is a drypoint, aquatint and softground etching, and...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Out-of-style Singleton prints have wide-ranging value
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/13/2009; ; 639 words
; ...YOUR ATTIC Q. This pair of aquatints was published in London in...question refers to these as "aquatints." Unfortunately, we cannot...a drypoint method while "aquatint" is considered to be a variant...two pieces are mezzotint or aquatint matters very much to the value...
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Haunting views and stories; Ann Zahn's 30-year retrospective is at Strathmore Hall.(ARTS)(ON VIEW)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 3/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...etching plate ("Sea Quest," etching and aquatint, 1988). The artist says she extended...her rounded backyard fishpond and made aquatint prints from eight places around the pond...woodcut, linoleum cut, etching, aquatint, dry point and lithography, in addition...
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aquatint
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
aquatint. A printmaking method related to etching...design) will print white. A version of aquatint was first used in the Netherlands in the...inks. The principal English pioneer of aquatint was Paul Sandby , who published his first...
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sugar aquatint
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
sugar aquatint ( sugar-lift aquatint ). See aquatint .
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etching
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...obtained in pencil or crayon drawing, while aquatint approximates the effects of a wash drawing. Aquatint is often combined with hard-ground etching...drypoint produces a finer line than does aquatint. Pictorial etching evolved gradually from...
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Procktor, Patrick
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...distinguished by limpid colouring. As a printmaker he favoured aquatint. The books he illustrated include Coleridge's Rime of the...publications include A Chinese Journey (1980), illustrated with aquatint landscapes. He taught at various art schools in London and...
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Audubon, John James
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...traveled to England in 1826. There, finding support, subscribers, and skilled engravers, he brought out the 435 huge, aquatint copperplates of The Birds of America , in many parts, over the next twelve years. The dramatic impact of his ambitious...
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