Mezzotint
メゾチント / 1640s– / Technique / Intaglio Printing
Grène toute la plaque pour imprimer un noir profond, puis brunit les lumières — l’image surgit de l’obscurité veloutée, non des lignes.
Noirs veloutés / Du sombre vers le clair / Dégradés doux / Lumières brunies
Entrée du dictionnaire
- Usages idéaux
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Typographie
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Matière
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Précaution
- Not a dark gradient effect. Reflect the inverted process — carving light out of a roughened plate — in the tonal design.
- Pour approfondir
- rocker / burnisher / tonal printmaking / dark manner


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