Matrix: Contemporary Printmaking - Museum of Fine Arts - Florida ...

Fall 2009
Glossary
Key Plate
Kimono and obi
Lithography
Matrix
Monoprint
Plate Mark
Proof
Rainbow Roll
Relief
Rubbing
Serigraph
Stipple Print
Washout
Woodcut
Zincography
The plate or block used to serve as a guide to register, or to line up, other
plates or blocks when printing each color layer of a color print.
In Japanese culture, the kimono is a long-sleeved, ankle-length robe worn
by Japanese women and tied with a belt over an obi sash. The kimono has
a tradition dating back more than 1,000 years and is usually decorated with
motifs such as flowers and birds.
The process of printing from drawings made with special crayons on stone
or on metal sheets, using the water-repellent properties of the crayons and
the greasy inks as a basic principle.
In printmaking, the physical object upon which a design has been formed
and which is then used to create a print, such as a zinc plate or limestone
block.
A method of printmaking which produces a work that cannot be exactly
reproduced. Monoprinting can sometimes produce similar images, but can
never produce multiples, or exact copies. Because of this inability to directly
copy an image, monoprinting is often called the most “painterly” printmaking
technique.
The impression left in the paper by the pressure of the plate edges.
A preliminary impression pulled for examination of various stages until final
state is reached.
Specialized technique in which a plate or stone is inked with strips of
several different colors at once. They are blended at the edges to produce
a rainbow like effect.
The raised surface which is the source of the image in relief process.
The process of pulling a print from a bas-relief sculpture. The paper is
placed against the clear sculpted surface and its back is rubbed with a flatedged
crayon or pencil. The image appears un-reversed on the paper.
The graphic process involving a stencil. The silkscreen process is referred
to as serigraphic printing.
To create a half-tone effect by engraving and etching little dots into the
plate.
In lithography, the process of removing the greasy drawing material from
the completed image on stone or plate.
Relief printing, the areas to appear in ink on the paper prints are those
which are left in relief on the surface, in contrast to the cut-away areas.
19 th -century term for lithography on zinc plates.
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