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Rembrandt, Self-portrait, etching, c. 1630. Francisco Goya, There is No One To Help Them, Disasters of War series, aquatint c. 1810. Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces.
Dürer's Rhinoceros is the name commonly given to a woodcut executed by German artist Albrecht Dürer in 1515. [ a] Dürer never saw the actual rhinoceros, which was the first living example seen in Europe since Roman times. Instead the image is based on an anonymous written description and brief sketch of an Indian rhinoceros brought to Lisbon ...
25.7 cm × 37.9 cm (10.1 in × 14.9 in) The Great Wave off Kanagawa(Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[a]is a woodblock printby Japanese ukiyo-eartist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo periodof Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed ...
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842. [ 1] The process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies. It was widely used for over a century for the reproduction of specification drawings ...
Graphics (from Ancient Greek γραφικός (graphikós) 'pertaining to drawing, painting, writing, etc.') are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, in ...
Vector graphics are a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons. The associated mechanisms may include vector display and printing hardware, vector data models and file formats, as well as the software based on these data ...
Early works of Vincent van Gogh. List of works by Vincent van Gogh. Flowering Orchards (Van Gogh series) Hospital in Arles (Van Gogh series) Langlois Bridge at Arles (Van Gogh series) Portrait of Dr. Gachet. Saintes-Maries (Van Gogh series) Yellow House (painting) The Zouave.
Graphic arts. A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface. [ 1] The term usually refers to the arts that rely more on line, color or tone, especially drawing and the various forms of engraving; [ 2] it is sometimes understood to refer ...