Four great printmaking techniques are available to produce the matrix of a fine art print :
• Intaglio processes : engraving, drypoint, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, etc (usually on metal, copper, zinc, steel)
• Relief processes : woodcut, linocut, etc...
• Flat processes : lithography (on stone, zinc, tracing paper), monotype, etc.
• Openwork masks processes : serigraph, stencil, etc...
In the infographic processes or data-processing, the matrix is essentially numerical and the impression combines various traditional or data-processing techniques, and we can speak about mixed techniques.
The lithography : one of the several printmaking techniques
The role of the fine art print
The fine art print has a major role in the art history since the 15th-16th century, the print emerged with Dürer and Rembrandt, then with the impressionists at the end of the 19th century, and the modern masters of the 20th century...
The fine art print is how the artist satisfies his desire to experiment in new fields of printmaking, allowing him to renew his artistic expression.
A cheap way to begin an Art collection : you can buy great masters artwork at reasonable prices, the fine art print is the first purchase of a young art collector...
The fine art print is how the artist satisfies his desire to experiment in new fields of printmaking, allowing him to renew his artistic expression.
A cheap way to begin an Art collection : you can buy great masters artwork at reasonable prices, the fine art print is the first purchase of a young art collector...
History of the lithography
The beginning : Aloys Senefelder (1771-1836) invents the process in 1798, the technique is based on the mutual repulsion of fat and water...
A quick popularity : soon after lithography was adopted by the artists from the 1820's, the romantic painters then the impressionists (Manet, Degas or Renoir...) and finally the poster artists (Lautrec, Chéret, Mucha...)
With the 20th century, the lithography goes thrue its golden age with artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Miro... it is the great period of the Mourlot, Clot, Pons and Desjobert workshops...
The decline arrived in the 1990's : the public, art galleries, dealers and artists turned away from print, and the workshops closed one by one...
A quick popularity : soon after lithography was adopted by the artists from the 1820's, the romantic painters then the impressionists (Manet, Degas or Renoir...) and finally the poster artists (Lautrec, Chéret, Mucha...)
With the 20th century, the lithography goes thrue its golden age with artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Miro... it is the great period of the Mourlot, Clot, Pons and Desjobert workshops...
The decline arrived in the 1990's : the public, art galleries, dealers and artists turned away from print, and the workshops closed one by one...
What is an original limited fine art print ?
An original artwork as well as a drawing or a painting, is defined by a single matrix and multiple copies, designed and developed by the artist in order to make an edition. It is not a photomechanical reproduction of an existing artwork...
The original lithograph has all the details of an original print as defined in the Fine Art Print Charter established by the French "Chambre Syndicale de l'Estampe" put in place in Paris in 1996.
The original lithograph has all the details of an original print as defined in the Fine Art Print Charter established by the French "Chambre Syndicale de l'Estampe" put in place in Paris in 1996.