Engraving
An intaglio printmaking technique that creates a crisp, precise line that swells in the middle and tapers at the end. Lines are incised on a bare metal plate using a burin, a tool with a sharp, V-shaped blade. After inking, which fills only the incised lines, damp paper is placed on the plate and run through a press, forcing the paper into the incised lines to pick up the ink.
Featured Works
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Plate 9 of 9, from the illustrated book, He Disappeared i...
Louise Bourgeois
1947
Minotauromachy (La Minotauromachie)
Pablo Picasso
1935
Hands Holding a Void
Alberto Giacometti
1934
Ballad of San Juan de Ulúa (Corrido: San Juan de Ulúa)
José Guadalupe Posada
Combat
Stanley William Hayter
1936, published 1941
Untitled (4), state II of III
Jackson Pollock
1944–1945
Untitled/IPCNY
Jessica Stockholder
2001
Untitled
Carroll Dunham
1999-2000
Upside Down Devil Variation
James Siena
2004
Untitled from Algorithms, Apparitions and Translations
Julie Mehretu
2013
The Conversation (As Remembered)
Sarah Sze
2013
Fragment from the portfolio The Met 150
Vija Celmins
2021