printmaking

noun

print·​mak·​ing ˈprint-ˌmā-kiŋ How to pronounce printmaking (audio)
: the design and production of prints by an artist
printmaker noun

Examples of printmaking in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Students can win scholarship money and awards in the categories of painting, mixed media, printmaking, sculpture, photography, digital art and video or animation. Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024 Attractions Oaxaca’s printmaking workshops highlight a vibrant art form among the city’s young artists. Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023 The large show includes works done in a variety of printmaking methods in which an artist works directly on a surface – a metal plate, a litho stone, a block of wood, for example – with the intention of creating an original work. Victoria Dalkey, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024 The center brings together art galleries, exhibit spaces and production facilities in everything from printmaking and ceramics to new media and stone and metal sculpture; the expansive 18-acre space is also home to art studios, residency apartments and a café. Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 Explore Oaxaca’s print workshops Mexico has a long printmaking tradition, and Oaxaca emerged as one of its centers in the 1970s. Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023 The mechanical techniques of printmaking, photography and film may simply have been a better fit than painting for the subject of war newly defined by industrialization. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023 Small printmaking studios double as galleries, displaying the woodcuts, lithographs and engravings of local art collectives. Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023 Her practice — which includes printmaking, painting and collaging — explores her Chicano heritage and Ashkenazi Jewish matrilineal line. Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1795, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of printmaking was in 1795

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“Printmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/printmaking. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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