Contemporary artists such as Alex Katz frequently
use aquatint techniques in their art pieces.
Many contemporary artists
use aquatint to create tonal prints, including Wayne Thiebaud, Alex Katz, Joan Jonas, Robert Mangold, Richard Diebenkorn, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, and James Turrell.
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.
Richard Diebenkorn, for example,
used aquatint reversal and drypoint to render spades, crosses, targets, and buttons jumbled together in «Flotsam.»
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Spanish artist Francisco Goya
used aquatint to create his hauntingly beautiful print series Los caprichos and Los desastres de la guerra.
In this print, Etchings to Rexroth, 12, Marden
uses aquatint to further define his nonfigurative composition.
Not exact matches
The range and richness of etched lines and traditional
aquatint is here achieved
using magnesium plates, cut up and pieced back together, combining areas of lace - like delicacy and passionate deep troughs.
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.
Stripping even the minimal color
used in the paintings foregrounds Taylor's fastidious attention to texture through etching, sugar lift
aquatint and scraping.
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.
He then created gentle washes of blue sky and weathered marks
using the sugar lift and spit bite
aquatint techniques.
Here, LeWitt
uses the inherent quality of the
aquatint medium to showcase the vibrant palette produced by overlapping «2 and 3 part combinations «of primary colors and gray.
The pyramid shapes
used in this work lead directly into LeWitt's Complex Forms (1990), a set of five
aquatint etchings in an edition of 27.
April Gornik's, Desert Light (2015),
uses soft ground etching and
aquatint with spitbite to evoke the radiant shearing light of an expansive desert landscape.
P07513 ANKING 1979 Inscribed «John Hoyland 79» bottom right and «BAT» Etching and
aquatint, printed at J.C. Editions, published by Waddington Graphics / Bernard Jacobson in an edition of 50, 26 1/2 × 21 (67.3 × 53.2) Purchased from Waddington Graphics (Grant - in - Aid) 1981 These prints [P07513, P07514, P05549, P05550, P05551, P05567] manifest Hoyland's desire to
use the etching process as a colouristic rather than linear medium.
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.
They created more than 70 editions together, mostly
using etching and
aquatint.
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.
Aquatint: A type of engraving that, instead of
using a needle to carve a wax ground, precisely spreads powdered rosin (a kind of tar) over the matrix to resist the acid and create various tonalities.
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).