Contemporary artists such as Alex Katz frequently use
aquatint techniques in their art pieces.
In addition Smith enhanced these images with other
aquatint techniques.
He then created gentle washes of blue sky and weathered marks using the sugar lift and spit bite
aquatint techniques.
Francisco Goya's Caprichos are probably the most famous aquatints, though some contemporary artists, like Alex Katz, often employ
the aquatint technique as well.
On view December 7 to February 4, it presents ten etchings made predominantly in
the aquatint technique, an intaglio process in which Crown Point has exceptional expertise.
Master Printer Sam Carr - Prindle helped her incorporate custom - made stencils from her studio in New York into copper plates mainly by using a modified sugar lift
aquatint technique.
Not exact matches
Each image combines a variety of
techniques and media: charcoal, charcoal pencil, and ink with engraving and
aquatint on paper and each measure approximately 31 1/2 x 24 inches.
One of the most ambitious of Frankenthaler's prints is the triptych Book of Clouds (2007) that involved a combination of several printing
techniques, employing Ukiyo - e style woodcut,
aquatint, and pochoir.
Frankenthaler has worked with Pace Prints to create four Ukiyo - e plus woodcuts, including «Geisha» (2003), a twenty - three color Ukiyo - e woodcut printed from 15 woodblocks on Torinoko paper and mounted onto Fabriano Classico, as well as «Book of Clouds,» a large - scale print using a combination of
aquatint, woodcut and pochoir
techniques.
Viewers will appreciate seeing masterful examples, in contemporary interpretation, of familiar and not so familiar printing
techniques — woodblock, etching, silkscreen, lithograph, drypoint and
aquatint.
Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation, this exhibition includes more than 25 prints made from a diverse range of
techniques, including lithographs, etchings,
aquatints, screen prints, and woodcuts.
Over the course of four decades, Donald Judd created hundreds of prints using
aquatint, etching, and screenprint
techniques though the woodcut was his primary print medium.
Over the course of four decades, Judd created hundreds of prints in
aquatint, etching, and screenprint
techniques though focused on woodcuts as his primary print medium.
In the way that an eloquent author's chosen words illuminate a story, Stella's layered printing
techniques (lithography, etching, engraving,
aquatint, screen printing, mezzotint, relief, collagraph, woodcut, and hot foil stamping) and sculptural forms elucidate the power of a narrative thread to join his works together.
Judd also explored screenprint
techniques, sometimes using different
techniques to generate the same shape, such as in the case of the parallelogram, which he used in his sculpture as well as in woodcuts, etchings, and
aquatints.
Down south, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, is exhibiting Frankenthaler prints more expansive in their
techniques: lithographs, etchings,
aquatints, screen prints, and woodcuts.
The eclectic array of artworks on view reflects the expansive range of the press in terms of both printmaking
techniques — such as
aquatint, collagraphy, etching, lithography, and screen printing — and subject matter.
The variety of printmaking
techniques on view demonstrates Turner's mastery of serigraphy, linocut, engraving,
aquatint, and lithography.
The
aquatint etching
technique was chosen for its softly gradated tonal values to effect the transitional light central to Turrell's work.
Artists working in the Crown Point studio bring their unique approaches to the medium, using hard ground etching, drypoint, sugar lift
aquatint, and photogravure to name a few
techniques.
She writes: «Though printmaking has been an important means of expression for many artists of his generation, it was a brief endeavor for Twombly... That said, he worked in nearly all traditional printmaking
techniques... including line etching, mezzotint,
aquatint, lithography, and screenprinting... Many of them were issued as portfolios, in keeping with his mode of painting and drawing in cycles.»
It was only from 1963 that she began to explore various
techniques (screen printing, lithography, offset,
aquatint), which enabled her to develop her research into abstraction.
Her first
aquatints (intaglio printmaking
technique) however date from 1953 (eg.
The artist has continually explored the possibilities of printmaking throughout his career, working across a number of
techniques, such as sugarlift
aquatint and lithography, in addition to experimenting with scale.
Unlike the related printmaking
techniques of etching, engraving, and drypoint — all line - based —
aquatint allows for shading.
He is also an innovative and prolific printmaker — of etchings, engravings,
aquatints, silkscreens, linocuts and lithographs — often experimenting with challenging formats and combinations of printing
techniques to create highly worked, intensely atmospheric imagery.
The current show provides an overview of its activities, with a selection of prints in a range of
techniques (etching,
aquatint, mezzotint and lithography) by known and emerging artists including Chuck Close, Carroll Dunham, Helen Frankenthaler, Elizabeth Murray, Cecily Brown and Rosa Loy.
Also noted for her fine pastels, as well as her prints, made using a variety of
techniques including drypoint,
aquatint, and etching.
Comprised of 82 etchings — using the relatively new
technique of
aquatint — the series depicts cruelties inflicted on the Spanish by French troops during the Peninsular War of 1808 — 14.
Since then, they have attracted an impressive roster of emerging as well as internationally recognized artists — including Martin Puryear, Ross Bleckner, Hung Liu, Gary Simmons and Tauba Auerbach — who spend weeklong residencies at the Berkeley press, using centuries - old intaglio
techniques (etching, drypoint,
aquatint).
In them, Tuttle combines his love of
aquatint etching
techniques with the collage of burlap, thread, gingham fabric in a careful balance of pure abstraction.
Below is an example of three works by Alex Katz that show three different print
techniques: woodcut,
aquatint, and screenprint.
Since the 1970s, her body of prints has evolved naturally from her virtuoso drawing skill and found form through diverse printmaking
techniques including mezzotint, etching, and
aquatint.