Home › Glossary › Letter P

Printmaking

Art
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

The creation of artworks by transferring an image from a prepared surface onto another material.

Detailed Definition
Printmaking includes relief, intaglio, screen printing, lithography, and monotype, each producing images through processes of transfer, pressure, repetition, and variation. Because prints can exist in editions, the medium raises questions about copies and originality. In poetry, printmaking can illuminate revision and repetition: a phrase may recur with slight changes, as if each appearance were a new impression. A printmaking poem values process, texture, and the productive force of recurrence.
Example
Example in poetry:
A printmaking poem can attend to repeated lines, carved marks, ink, pressure, and the contrast between black and white; William Blake joined poetry and printmaking by engraving words and images for Songs of Innocence and of Experience; Write a poem in which each stanza returns like an impression pulled from the same woodblock; A speaker may compare inherited family stories to prints, each copy similar yet marked by its own flaws
Additional Notes
Printmaking includes woodcut, engraving, etching, lithography, and screen printing. A matrix can produce multiple impressions of an image.
Also Known As
Print Art Graphic Arts Etching
Skip to main content