Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges —leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.

The oldest form of printmaking, woodcut is a relief process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wooden block.

Woodcut (aka Xylography, gr. ξύλον — tree, γρᾰ́φω — write) is the oldest type of engraving, a printing technique, in which artists carve their drawing on a wooden board. The wood density and structure, the fiber resistance during cutting determine the line thickness and smoothness.

Feb 26, 2020 · Woodcuts first appeared in the west in the fifteenth century. They developed out of a method of printing designs onto textiles, and while many may think of Old Master prints as being printed in black and white, early artists explored the addition of color and tone to …

Oct 1, 2003 · The chiaroscuro woodcut, invented in Germany by Hans Burgkmair around 1509, was created by printing a line block—which carried the contours and crosshatching, and could sometimes stand alone as a black and white woodcut—together with one or more tone blocks.

woodcut, technique of printing designs from planks of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood’s grain. It is one of the oldest methods of making prints from a relief surface, having …

Mar 3, 2022 · Woodcut printing began in antiquity in China as a means of printing on fabrics, and subsequently on paper. The earliest woodblock printing remnants that have survived are from China, dating from the Han period, and are made of silk …

Aug 31, 2016 · This unusual woodcut printed on black paper is based on an old English ballad in the oral tradition entitled Sir Patrick Spens. First published in Thomas Percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), the story is about an ill-fated Scottish voyage to …

Dec 7, 2023 · Fine examples of the work of Dürer, Haden, Meissonier, Millet, Tissot, Van Dyck, Whistler and other distinguished artists including many colored mezzotints...

May 8, 2021 · The oldest technique of woodcut became one “of the great forces which were to transform mediaeval into modern life,” as George E. Woodberry wrote in his 1883 book History of the Wood Engraving. Woodcuts revolutionized not...