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Intaglio prints series#

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The bright green of the serial number shows ink rim on the edges, characteristic of relief printing. This is a sign characterizing only relief printing. The process of transferring the ink from the block applying pressure produces a characteristic rim on the edges of the printed lines.

Then the ink is transferred by laying a sheet of paper and applying pressure.

On the relief block – wood or metal – the non-printing areas are cut away and the ink is applied to the remaining raised areas by dabbing or with a roller. This is the oldest of the printing techniques.

Pre-photographic printing methods are classified in three main categories: Relief, Intaglio and Planographic. A great online resource is the IPI (Image Permanence Institute) Graphics Atlas. Though, even if the subject is complex, this doesn’t mean we cannot have some good time, experimenting a bit with prints. I like to share in this post some basic hints on their identification using the USB microscope but heartily recommending further readings, since the number of techniques and variations is extraordinary, so a definitive attribution deserve an advanced knowledge. Printmaking history is fascinating as well as a complex subject. Looking at old and new prints with an USB microscope is revealing and with some experience can lead to their identification. We do run a lot of initiatives, Stay on top of things!

Valeria – Panoramic Head for IR Reflectography.

Pitty – Polarized Light Photography Kit.

Course: Panoramic Infrared Reflectography.

Gorgias – Reflectance Spectroscopy system.

Infrared Fluorescence Photography (IRF).

Infrared False Color photography (IRFC).

Picasso’s combined passion for experimentation and printmaking throughout his career has left us with some of the most memorable images of any graphic artist in history. Using a technique similar to woodcut, Picasso would recut a single linoleum-covered block for each color in the image, starting with the lightest color and ending with the darkest, and print them sequentially on the same sheet of paper. After the war, he explored the creative possibilities of lithography, spontaneously drawn directly onto the stone, before discovering a novel form of linoleum cuts printed in color. In these allegorical compositions, Picasso engraved Surrealist-inspired meditations on the emotional life of the artist in politically tempestuous times, culminating in the enormous etching Minotauromachy, the artist’s printmaking masterpiece. In the 1920s, in the wake of his transformative Cubist period, Picasso expanded his graphic vocabulary to include color pochoirs (stencil prints), lithographs, and aquatints before returning to a wide variety of intaglio techniques in the 1930s, when he produced some of the most stunning prints of his career.

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His earliest prints, from 1904–5, form a series of simple drypoints, depicting acrobats and street performers, that reflect the Symbolist, dreamlike aesthetic of his Blue and Rose Periods. The evolution of Picasso’s printed work closely follows his development as a painter. Working in close collaboration with some of the best master printers of his generation, Picasso vigorously explored technical innovations that not only fueled his graphic imagination but also expanded the possibilities of printmaking as an expressive art form. The majority of his vast graphic oeuvre of over two thousand unique images consists of intaglio prints that he scratched, scraped, gouged, or etched into a copper plate, before he switched to lithography and color relief printing later in his career. By almost any standard, Picasso could be considered the most influential printmaker of the twentieth century.