PRINT MAKING

PRINTMAKINGBegan in China around 105 A.D.Became popular in Europe in the

15th century (when paper was imported)

4 MAIN TYPES OF PRINTMAKING

• Intaglio--printing from a cut surface(cutting into the printing plate, then inking and printing the lines)

• Lithography--printing from a flat surface(drawing with a greasy substance, grease absorbs ink)

• Serigraphy--printing with a stencil(also known as screen-printing)

• Relief--printing from a raised surface(ex. Rubber stamp, woodblock)

Linoleum Blocks

Salvador Jimenez

POP ARTBegan in the 1950’s

London, then the U.S.Popularized non-academic art

Coincided with pop music and the youth culture boom in the 1960’s

(Beatlemania)

Jasper Johns

Roy Lichtenstein “Blam”

ANDY WARHOL

1928-1987Born in Pittsburgh

Began silkscreen prints of famous people in 1962

Obsessed with the goal of becoming rich and famous!

"Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."