{"id":2091,"date":"2024-03-14T20:14:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T20:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2024-03-14T20:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T20:14:24","slug":"intro-to-western-art-3-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/03\/14\/intro-to-western-art-3-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Western Art 3\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Class today took place in the art museum where we were able to see real examples of the techniques for printmaking discussed in class. Beginning with reliefs, a woodcut by D\u00fcrer <em>Pass Christi: Christ before Pilate<\/em> had uniform lines creating details and depth in the scene. Made using a gouge, the tool carved lines from a wooden block, moved for curving lines by turning the block, not the hand. Most of our time however was spent discussing Intaglio, specifically etchings and engravings. The engraving by Goltzius <em>The Roman Heroes: Mucius Scaevola<\/em> can be characterized by its variation of thick and thin lines. This effect is achieved with the burin tool used for engravings, which alters the thickness of the line depending on the amount of pressure applied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Etchings are different from engravings as they&#8217;re made with an etching needle and often a varnish coating. The maneuverability of the needle gives etchings the impressions of drawings, as the lines are imperfect and more free. This was seen clearly in Collot&#8217;s <em>Dwarf with Big Belly<\/em> and <em>From the Medici Landscapes: La Chasse Au Cerf (The Deer Hunt).<\/em> The inclusion of aquatint on a printing medium adds a final details to prints &#8211; gray. Melted dots of resin as contrast with the ink, preventing a completely dark print as in Goya&#8217;s <em>Disparate Volante<\/em>. Overall, the detail and time it takes to create these prints is especially impressive when they&#8217;re seen in person, up-close with a magnifying glass. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class today took place in the art museum where we were able to see real examples of the techniques for printmaking discussed in class. Beginning with reliefs, a woodcut by D\u00fcrer Pass Christi: Christ before Pilate had uniform lines creating details and depth in the scene. Made using a gouge, the tool carved lines from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}