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aquatint
[ ak-wuh-tint, ah-kwuh- ]
noun
- a process imitating the broad flat tints of ink or wash drawings by etching a microscopic crackle on the copperplate intended for printing.
- an etching made by this process.
verb (used with or without object)
- to etch in aquatint.
aquatint
/ ˈæəˌɪԳ /
noun
- a technique of etching copper with acid to produce an effect resembling the flat tones of wash or watercolour. The tone or tint is obtained by acid (aqua) biting through the pores of a ground that only partially protects the copper
- an etching made in this way
verb
- tr to etch (a block, etc) in aquatint
Other yvlog Forms
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yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of aquatint1
Example Sentences
The composition was inspired by Francisco de Goya’s renowned, politically trenchant aquatint, “The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
“Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas” opened in April at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with more than 100 works, including some of his most monumental paintings, along with drawings, woodcuts, etchings and aquatints.
The first thing you see when the curtain goes up on “Plaza Suite” is an aquatint image of that grand hotel in its antique glory.
Francisco Goya, the most famous artist associated with the technique, embraced the haunting potential of aquatint to create gut-wrenching images that skewered politics and society in his “Los Caprichos” and “Disasters of War” series.
The show’s high points are “Six Bardos,” a suite of large aquatints from 2018 inspired by the six intervals between life and death in Buddhism.
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