Linocut (printmaking) | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Linocuts, a form of relief printing, originate from a sheet of linoleum, a material invented in the mid-19th century by mixing various materials with solidified linseed oil.

Excerpt from

Emily Schiller, Visions of America exhibition gallery text, 2016.

NOTES

As in the production of woodcuts, a gouge is generally used to make a linocut. Both are means of making relief prints, in which everything is cut away from the block except the lines to be printed. Picasso used all sorts of tools to excavate his linoblocks.

Brigitte Baer (editor Steven A. Nash), Picasso the Printmaker: Graphics from the Marina Picasso Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, 1983. (exh 9/11- 10/30/1983). Drawings of instruments by Daniella Benedetti.

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Linoleum

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The photograph shows a person using a tool called a gouger to cut a design into linoleum for a linocut print.

Source: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License, Wikimedia Commons, accessed August 3, 2016.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Preparing_a_Linocut_Design.jpg

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apply to objects where medium contains lino

General Description

Linocuts, a form of relief printing, originate from a sheet of linoleum, a material invented in the mid-19th century by mixing various materials with solidified linseed oil.

Excerpt from

Emily Schiller, Visions of America exhibition gallery text, 2016.

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Notes

As in the production of woodcuts, a gouge is generally used to make a linocut. Both are means of making relief prints, in which everything is cut away from the block except the lines to be printed. Picasso used all sorts of tools to excavate his linoblocks.

Brigitte Baer (editor Steven A. Nash), Picasso the Printmaker: Graphics from the Marina Picasso Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, 1983. (exh 9/11- 10/30/1983). Drawings of instruments by Daniella Benedetti.