Definition of printmaking Printmaking

/pɹɪˈntmejˌkɪŋ/ - [printmeyking] - print•mak•ing

We found 5 definitions of printmaking from 5 different sources.

What does printmaking mean?

Noun Plural: printmakings
printmaking - artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens
		artistic creation, artistic production, art the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
		engraving, etching making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them
		serigraphy the act of making a print by the silkscreen method

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printmaking (Noun)
The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transferal of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper.

Printmaking making art by printing pictures, normally on paper. The advantage of printmaking is that lots of the same picture can be printed. This is called a print. Each print is not a copy, but an original, since it came from the same source (not like painting or drawing).

Materials.

Pictures for prints can be cut into plates of metal, usually copper or zinc for engraving or etching; stone, used for lithography; blocks of wood for woodcuts, linoleum for linocuts and fabric plates for screen-printing. Prints may also be published in books by the artist.