graphic arts: see aquatint aquatint (ä`kwətĭnt'), etching technique.
..... Click the link for more information. ; drawing drawing, art of the draftsman. In its broadest sense it includes every use of the delineated line and is thus basic to the arts of painting, architecture, sculpture, calligraphy, and geometry.
..... Click the link for more information. ; drypoint drypoint, an intaglio printing process in which the lines are scratched directly into a metal plate with a needle; also, the print made from such a plate. Although it is often used in combination with etching , no acid is used for the drypoint.
..... Click the link for more information. ; engraving engraving, in its broadest sense, the art of cutting lines in metal, wood, or other material either for decoration or for reproduction through printing . In its narrowest sense, it is an intaglio printing process in which the lines are cut in a metal plate with a
..... Click the link for more information. ; etching etching, the art of engraving with acid on metal; also the print taken from the metal plate so engraved. In hard-ground etching the plate, usually of copper or zinc, is given a thin coating or ground of acid-resistant resin.
..... Click the link for more information. ; illustration illustration, any type of picture or decoration used in conjunction with a text to embellish its appearance or to clarify its meaning. Illustration is as old as writing, with both originating in the pictograph.
..... Click the link for more information. ; linoleum block printing linoleum block printing or linocut, 20th-century development in the art of relief cuts. The linoleum block consists of a thin layer of linoleum mounted on wood; in this the design to be printed is cut in the same manner as for a woodcut .
..... Click the link for more information. ; lithography lithography (lĭthŏg`rəfē), type of planographic or surface printing.
..... Click the link for more information. ; mezzotint mezzotint (mĕt`sətĭnt, mĕd`zə–, mĕz`ə–) [Ital.
..... Click the link for more information. ; niello niello (nēĕl`ō) [Ital.
..... Click the link for more information. ; pastel pastel (păstĕl`), artists' medium of chalk and pigment, tempered with weak gum water and usually molded in the form of sticks; also
..... Click the link for more information. ; poster poster, placard designed to be posted in some public place for purposes of commercial announcement or propaganda. Advertising makes wide use of posters, as do charitable and political organizations.
..... Click the link for more information. ; silk-screen printing silk-screen printing, multiple printing technique, also known as serigraphy, involving the use of stencils to transfer the design. Paint is applied to a silk or nylon screen and penetrates areas of the screen not blocked by the stencil.
..... Click the link for more information. ; silhouette silhouette (sĭl'
..... Click the link for more information. ; silverpoint silverpoint, method of drawing whereby a silver-tipped instrument is dragged across paper prepared with ground bone dust and gum water and then tinted with a pigment. The procedure results in drawings of extraordinary delicacy.
..... Click the link for more information. ; sketch sketch, a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered masterpieces in their own right.
..... Click the link for more information. ; stencil stencil, cutout device of oiled or shellacked tough and resistant paper, thin metal, or other material used in applying paint, dye, or ink to reproduce its design or lettering upon a surface.
..... Click the link for more information. ; woodcut and wood engraving woodcut and wood engraving, prints made from designs cut in relief on wood, in contrast to copper or steel engraving and etching (which are intaglio ).
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graphic arts

The business of generating visual representations, which includes commercial art (illustrations) and page layout. The traditional arts such as painting and lithography also fall under graphic arts. See graphic.

graphic arts [¦graf·ik ′ärts]

(graphic arts)

Those methods of applied arts used to form a visual end product that conveys information or is a decoration; methods include drawing, painting, photography, all types of printing, and bookmaking.

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graphic arts

graphic arts
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