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demonstrated, such prints can also be achieved using a single piece of linoleum in what is called the "reductive" print method. Essentially, after each successive colour is imprinted onto the paper, the artist then cleans the lino plate and cuts away what will not be imprinted for the subsequently
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Due to ease of use, linocut is widely used in schools to introduce children to the art of printmaking, using it to complete many tasks in the art lesson rather than going straight for the pencil and eraser. Similarly, non-professional artists often cut lino rather than wood for printing.
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Nevertheless, in the contemporary art world the linocut is an established professional print medium, because of its extensive use by the artists of the Grosvenor School, followed by Pablo Picasso and
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and does not tend to split, it is easier to obtain certain artistic effects with lino than with most woods, although the resultant prints lack the often angular grainy character of woodcuts and
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Linocuts can also be achieved by the careful application of art on the surface of the lino. This creates a surface similar to a soft ground
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Colour linocuts can be made by using a different block for each colour as in a woodcut, as the artists of the
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surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped
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Linocut printing; using a design cut into linoleum to make a print on paper
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Using a handheld gouger to cut a design into linoleum for a linocut print
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Explanation of art term 'Linocut' on Tate Gallery website
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and these caustic-lino plates can be printed in either a
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Australian Woodcuts and Linocuts of the 1920s and 1930s
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Pedro de Lemos, Lasting Impressions: Works on Paper
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Index


printmaking
woodcut
linoleum
relief
chisel
gouge
brayer
printing press


directional grain
engravings
etching
relief
intaglio
viscosity printing
Grosvenor School
Pablo Picasso
Henri Matisse
Vojtěch Preissig
Pedro Joseph de Lemos
Walter Inglis Anderson
Brooklyn Museum

Peeter Allik

Ethel Spowers
Josef Albers
Peeter Allik

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