CREATIVE PRINTMAKING -I (Practical)

Paper Code: 
25VAG125
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to develop a sensibility to work according to the medium they are going to use as an advanced level in printing in relief, litho and etching. Assess an understanding of tools and technology of relief and lithography including their roles in the creation, reproduction and distribution of visual messages.

 

Course Outcomes: 

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Creative Printmaking - I (Practical)

CO19: Develop the skill and thoughts by layouting compositions that are creative.

 

CO20: Prepare and arrange the thoughts to form a composition and present the composition to the viewer in a unique way through their prints.

 

CO21: Assess the work through their expression towards nature, culture and contemporary

Issues.

 

CO22:  Justify skill of Printmaking through the work and defend their advanced working knowledge of Relief and Planography, intaglio printing.

 

CO23: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

Layouts & Sketches, Continuous Assessment Test, Semester End Examinations, Daily Assignments, Observation, Student Teacher Interaction and Final Submissions

COURSE CONTENT:

 

The student will choose any one of the following as a compulsory technique which she will continue in all the four semesters. Besides this she will have to choose one more technique as a subsidiary, which they can change in each semester if they want.

  • Relief printing (wood and lino)
  • Lithography (Planography)
  • Intaglio (Etching, Dry Point, Aquatint viscosity, Engraving, Matzoth, Photo Etching)
  • Serigraphy

Submission: min. 8 works (not less than 12”x 18”

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Bamber Gascoigne, how to Identify Prints: A complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet Paperback, 25 May 2004.
  2. Kapoor, Geeta, Three Graphic Artist (Journal) – Lalit Kala Academy.
  3. D. Kauffmann., Graphic Art and Craft
  4. Eichenberg, Fritz, The Art of the Print.
  5. Wonder Day Experiments in Wood Cut.
  6. Hind, A.M, An Introduction to a History of Woodcut

 

 

References: 
  1. Heller, Jules, Printmaking Today
  2. Adhemer, Jean Graphic Art of 18th Century.
  3. A Fern, A Half Century of American Printmaking
  4. UmetaroAzechi, Japanese Woodblock printing.
  5. The Printmaking Ideas Book Paperback – Illustrated, August 20, 2019

 

E-Resources:

  1. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/mezzotint
  2. https://www.google.com/search?q=Mezzotint+tools&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHk6Sy1vb-AhWG-jgGHZ-TCugQ1QJ6BAhOEAE&biw=1024&bih=497&dpr=1.88#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a80ae10b,vid:rpbt6tjjjZE
  3. https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/seven-indian-printmakers/
  4. https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/api/file/viewByFileId/288083.pdf
  5. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=steam
  6. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/m/mezzotint

 

 

Academic Year: 
2025-2026
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