Today we went to a private room in the Art Museum to go see some of the interesting prints, etchings, and engravings in the Museum’s inventory. It was really cool, I had no idea we had such an extensive and varied collection of European prints. We tracked the development of printmaking technologies, starting with examples of woodblock prints and finishing with etchings. I didn’t really realize that there was a difference between etching and engraving, as the book’s explanation of the practice was a bit hard to follow. Professor Plesch’s explanation of the two practices were very helpful though, and it was cool to actually be able to see and hold the tools that people used to make etchings. It was also really cool to learn that etching was seen as an inferior art to engraving, and that a lot of early etchings tried to imitate engravings. We also went a bit beyond the book as well, particularly with the last piece on our pseudo ‘timeline’ of printing. Professor Plesch told us that the parts of metal plate intended to be the background had varnish baked onto it, allowing the ink to absorb into the bubbly ridges of the plate which created this super deep and murky blackness that I thought was really cool. All in all it was a great class, a nice change of pace from our regular lectures and a nice way to interact with art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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