Printmaking

History of printmaking:

    The process if making artworks by printings normally on paper is called printmaking. There are different forms of print making, from different cultures. For example, the Asian countries use wood block or wood cut, where as engraving is from Germany. There are so many different types of techniques and ways to print. Such as woodcut, etch, engrave, monotype, mono print, digital prints, mezzotint, aquatint, dry point, lithography, screen printing, foil imaging, and more. 

Japanese printmaking: 

    The Japanese techniques of wood block printing is very different than the western techniques. The oil-based ink is applied with a brush and while being printed by hand, it is pressed deeply into the Japanese paper. Wood block printing came to japan from china. During that time the 2 countries were connected to an intensive culture exchange. The first prints were only black and white. After, many many years, japan shared/brought this art creation to America.



 This is a picture of a woodblock design from Japan.

Mexican printmaking: 

  After the armed conflict from 1910, people started to find the importance of art, murals, graphic art,
and printmaking. They used print making for public awareness for different causes as well. The
practices can be traced back thousands of years to several cultures, including the Olmec, Toltec, Teotihuacan, Mayan, and Aztec, who used tools to stamp a design on paper or fabric. They printed things such as, important life events, rituals, wars, human, sacrifices, and legends about their rulers or kings.


This is a Mexican printmaking of the dessert and cactus.