Lithography

石版画/リトグラフ / 1796– / Technique / Planographic Printing

Uses the repulsion of oil and water to reproduce crayon and tusche drawing from stone or plate, keeping all the softness of the hand.

Greasy crayon / Stone or metal plate / Painterly tone / Multicolor overprinting

ロートレック『ムーラン・ルージュ』1891ドーミエ『トランスノナン街』1834シェレ『ムーラン・ルージュ舞踏会』1889

Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Not a pencil texture. Understand water and grease, the stone's surface, damping, rollers, overprinting.
Further study
Alois Senefelder / tusche / Toulouse-Lautrec / offset lithography

Related entries

Source: MoMA — Lithography

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