Linocut and Other Art Terms in the Art Dictionary of Arcy Art Original Oil Paintings - Art Terminology Beginning With L ...
Linocut is a form of relief printing. A design is carved into a piece of lino (linoleum).
Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum (sometimes mounted on a wooden block) is used for the relief surface.
Linocut
A relief print produced in a manner similar to woodcut. The lino block consists of a thin layer of linoleum (a canvas backing coated with a preparation of solidified linseed oil) usually mounted on wood.
Linocut
An image cut into the surface of linoleum and typically mounted on a piece of wood. The surface is then inked, wiped and the image transferred to paper using pressure.
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Linocut
A relief print made from a sheet of linoleum into which a design has been cut with knives or burins. Similar to woodcut, The linoleum allows a greater variety and range of effects because it can be worked more easily.
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linocut A form of relief printmaking, similar to a woodcut, in which a block of linoleum is carved so as to leave the image to be printed raised above the surface of the block. The resulting print is also known as a linocut.
linocut - Linoleum cut.
linoleum cut, linocut, or lino-cut - A linoleum block or plate used for making relief prints. Linoleum is a durable, washable material formerly used more for flooring as vinyl flooring is used today.
LINOCUT PRINTMAKING - Linocut is a printmaking techique in which a sheet of linoleum is used for the releif surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a specialist tool.
Linocut
A relief print process similar to woodcut. Wood blocks covered with a layer of linoleum are carved with woodcut tools, coated with ink and printed by hand or in a press.
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However, they had distinguished themselves by their explicitly Communist response to the volatile political situation, demonstrated in the folio of linocuts The Living Ones (1919), by Räderscheidt, Seiwert, ...
Linocuts of the Machine Age: Claude Flight and the Grosvenor School; by Stephen Coppel, Publisher: Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.
James Lesesne Wells (artist)
American, 1902 - 1993
African Nude, 1980
color linocut on Japan paper
image: 32.2 x 44.2 cm (12 11/16 x 17 3/8 in.) sheet: 43 x 57.5 cm (16 15/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Gift of Jacob Kainen
2002.98.246
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relief printing A printing technique in which the parts of the printing surface that carry ink are left raised, while the remaining areas are cut away. Woodcuts and linoleum prints (linocuts) are relief prints.
When fused with the vocabulary of 'primitive' art, the medium became a powerful tool for personal expression. A modern alterative to this traditional technique was the linocut, a medium invented by Die Brücke.
Picasso also produced at least one such linoleum cut: Luncheon on the Grass, after Edouard Manet, linocut on Arches paper, 24.5 x 29.625 inches, image size: 20.875 x 25.125 inches, B.1097. See after, gaze, Impressionism, and Realism.
linocut - linoleum block print; print made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum
linseed oil - traditional vehicle and medium pressed from flax seeds and used in oil painting ...
 See also: Painting, Plate, Sculpture, Relief, Size
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