The plate-, block- or stencil-based methods used to produce a printed image in multiple, distinct from drawing's direct hand application and painting's pigment-on-support method. Belongs here: methods such as woodcut, engraving, etching, lithography and screen printing. Does not belong here: the freehand methods grouped under Drawing Techniques. This is a grouping node for printmaking technique as a whole, distinct from any single named print or printmaker entity elsewhere in the atlas.
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Core Arts Discipline Printmaking Techniques
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1. National Core Arts Standards: Visual Arts Introduction
National Coalition for Core Arts StandardsVisual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraphQuote, Visual Arts introduction, discipline definition paragraph
Visual Arts include the traditional fine arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; media arts including film, graphic communications, animation, and emerging technologies; architectural, environmental, and industrial arts such as urban, interior, product, and landscape design; folk arts; and works of art such as ceramics, fibers, jewelry, works in wood, paper, and other materials.
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