{"id":"soft-ground-etching","name":"Soft-ground Etching","ja":"ソフトグラウンド・エッチング","era":"18th century–present","family":"凹版印刷","source":{"title":"MoMA — German Expressionism: Intaglio","url":"https://www.moma.org/s/ge/curated_ge/techniques/intaglio.html"},"essence":"柔らかな防食層へ紙越しの筆圧や物の表面を写し、その跡を腐食して刷るエッチングの技法。鉛筆に似た粒のある線や、布・葉などの接触面の跡を版へ取り込める。直接版を引っかくドライポイントや、硬い防食層へ針で線を描く工程とは区別する。","cues":["鉛筆に似た粒のある線","紙や接触物の表面の跡","細い線と柔らかな面のつながり","圧力や接触で変わる像の密度"],"intents":["親密","静けさ"],"pair":["etching","drypoint"],"study":["Soft ground, contact and texture","MoMA — German Expressionism intaglio","Mixed intaglio techniques"],"avoid":"鉛筆風に見えるだけで技法を決めない。防食層の工程を確かめ、併用した凹版技法も分けて説明する。","no":776,"kind":"技法","works":["ソフトグラウンド・エッチングの作例を、近接する版画技法と比較する展示・教材","線、階調、紙の関係を実作品の技法記録から検討する出版"],"recipe":{"type":"作品の文字と後から加える説明を分け、技法・作者・年代を画面外へ整理する。","layout":"筆圧と接触する面の違いを試し、柔らかい線と背景の密度を分ける。","material":"所蔵館の技法記録と実物の紙・インクを確認し、画面の色だけから材料を決めない。"},"colors":["#E1D5BF","#403B35","#8D8071"],"motif":"print","collection":"Dictionary expansion 51","addedAt":"2026-10-05","reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"https://www.moma.org/s/ge/curated_ge/techniques/intaglio.html","credit":"MoMA — German Expressionism: Intaglio","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Soft%20Ground%20on%20Zinc.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soft%20Ground%20on%20Zinc.jpg","credit":"Soft-ground etching on zinc, technical example — OrangeJudex — Wikimedia Commons / CC0"}]},"en":{"essence":"An etching method in which pressure through paper or contact with a textured object marks a soft resist before the plate is etched. It can produce grainy, pencil-like lines or transferred surface textures. These differ from direct drypoint scratches and needle drawing through a hard ground.","cues":["Grainy, pencil-like lines","Paper or object textures transferred to the plate","Soft transitions between line and area","Density varies with pressure and contact"],"avoid":"A pencil-like appearance does not prove the method. Check the resist process and other intaglio techniques recorded for the work.","works":["Exhibitions and teaching that compare Soft-ground Etching with neighbouring print techniques","Publications studying lines, tones and paper through documented works"],"recipe":{"type":"Keep lettering in the work separate from added labels; place medium, artist and date outside the image.","layout":"Compare pressure and contact textures, separating soft lines from background density.","material":"Check the collection medium record and the paper and ink; do not infer materials from screen colour alone."}},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/soft-ground-etching","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/soft-ground-etching","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/soft-ground-etching/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/soft-ground-etching/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}