Printmaking+Masters

= Printmaking Masters =


 * Printmaking** is a type of art that uses an inked block or plate to print in image. This method allows for multiple printings of an image.

A few printmaking masters include:

was a painter, printmaker of the German Renaissance. Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, due to his high-quality [|woodcut prints]. His vast body of work includes engravings, his preferred technique in his later prints, altarpieces, portraits and self-portraits, watercolours and books. The woodcuts, such as the // [|Apocalypse] //series (1498), his well-known engravings the // [|Knight, Death, and the Devil] // (1513), // [|Saint Jerome in his Study] // (1514) and // [|Melencolia I] //(1514) are all examples of his great printmaking mastery. || **Katsushika Hokusai** was a Japanese painter and [|printmaker] of the [|Edo period]. Hokusai is best known as author of the [|woodblock print] series // [|Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji] // (富嶽三十六景 //Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei// [|?] , c. 1831) which includes the internationally recognized print, // [|The Great Wave off Kanagawa] //, created during the 1820s.
 * ** Albrecht Dürer **

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