woodcut process
Sign in to savethumb|The Four Horsemen by Albrecht Dürer, depicting the [[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]
AI overview
I cannot write an accurate overview of the woodcut process based solely on the provided context, as it only contains an image caption identifying a specific artwork and its subject matter, without any information about the woodcut process itself. To provide an accurate overview as requested, I would need source material that actually describes the technique, its methods, or its historical significance.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Article
17 sectionsContents
- Division of labour
- Methods of printing
- History
- White-line woodcut
- Japonism
- Colour
- Gallery of East Asian woodcuts
- Chiaroscuro woodcuts
- Modern woodcut printing in Mexico
- Current woodcut practices in Mexico
- Famous works in woodcut
- Notable artists
- Stonecut
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|The Four Horsemen by Albrecht Dürer, depicting the [[Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]
Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to produce the print. The block is cut along the wood grain (unlike wood engraving, where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller (brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas.