materials and techniques - 'disasters of war'

• Intaglio technique

  -          ‘The Disasters of War’ was made with a range of printmaking techniques – a variety of intaglio techniques

  -          The image is produced by incising the printing plate – the ink gets caught in the marks made

  -          Printing from bottom of incision is intaglio

  -          Goya mainly uses etching for the line work and aquatint for the tonal areas, but also engraving and drypoint
• dyrpoint

  -          Drypoint is scratching directly into the copper
• significance of techniques

  -          By using a range of techniques Goya was able to create a graduation of tone – aquatint makes area for tone
• process

  -          Scratched lines into the wax – then acid remove the wax – then puts ink – then goes through the printing press

  . using chemicals
• drypoint and lines made with it

  -          Drypoint – straight onto copper – makes fuzzy lines

  . without any chemical
• Goya - comparison to painting and prints

  -          He is as famous for his prints as his paintings – very prolific

  -          He has used etching throughout his career
• making etchings during war

  . canvas’ were hard to ship in

  . paintings are more expensive
• significance of print making a political commentary

  -          Not only Goya who uses prints to make some sort of incisive commentary – vehicle for social and political satire commentary

  . print making was mostly British
• Goya's process shows

  -          In his work there is evidence of the artists hand and his process – doesn’t hide process of his medium