Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens.
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- noun The field of
art concerned, roughly, with the transferal of ink or paint from aplate orblock or through a screen mesh to paper.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens
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Examples
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Doing My Printmaking Homework for November gilcee prints when they hear the word printmaking, a print that's a copy of a painting.
About.com Painting 2009
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Usually so-called printmaking and distributor sites are unimpressive, but these guys really seem to know what they're doing.
Cool Hunting 2009
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Usually so-called printmaking and distributor sites are unimpressive, but these guys really seem to know what they're doing.
Cool Hunting 2009
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Usually so-called printmaking and distributor sites are unimpressive, but these guys really seem to know what they're doing.
Cool Hunting 2009
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Usually so-called printmaking and distributor sites are unimpressive, but these guys really seem to know what they're doing.
Cool Hunting 2009
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Usually so-called printmaking and distributor sites are unimpressive, but these guys really seem to know what they're doing.
Cool Hunting 2009
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"The printmaking was a great source of pride - and a great source of community," Griffiths Belt says.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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This year's ranking did not include some of UI's most nationally recognized graduate programs, such as printmaking, nursing and physical therapy.
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Other than all of the artists using some kind of printmaking method, Wilson said there is no theme to the exhibition, but he's already begun to think about putting together a themed edition of a printmaking exhibition.
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If you're at all interested in this kind of printmaking, it is just fascinating.
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darqueau commented on the word printmaking
"Like learning to play ping pong backwards in a mirror with a time lapse"
-Robert Hughes
October 28, 2008