Printmaking: The Painterly Print: Monotype

Spring 2007
Department of Art, Architecture and Art History

Art 397M / Art 697M
Instructor: Professor Rosanne Retz
Fine Arts Center 436


Ice Pond © Rosanne Retz 2006

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This course will focus on the art of the monotype. Monotype is a cross-over discipline that combines the skills of drawing and painting with printmaking. This course will not be technically tradition-bound, but inventive with creative methods that can be spontaneous, simple and direct. This expressive medium will be introduced and explored through demonstrations and discussions of painting techniques, oil-base ink and modifiers, and printing on the etching press as well as on the Dufa Offset press. Class members will go from designing their images on paper as studies to the printing of unique impressions of trace monotypes and monoprint's from plexiglas as well as from woodblocks using the variety of techniques introduced. There will be a presentation by each class member of contemporary printmaking influences, methods for idea generation, demonstrations of process, and a critique of images made prior to the start of new projects. This class will conclude the semester with a final project presentation by each class member. While this is a studio course in which we will learn new techniques, the primary focus will be on the content of the art works created for this class.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This semester you will be asked to establishing a consistent subject matter to explore for the entire semester. You will concentrate your attention on a thematic and sequential development of ideas while employing techniques that exploit the unique qualities that are inherent to the painterly medium of the monotype. Therefore, you are being asked to submit a written proposal which will include as a goal a focused group of thematically related prints. You will also be given several technical assignments over the course of the semester as well as 6 projects.

A final portfolio is required at the end of the semester. It should contain all assignments and proofs. Portfolio presentation is important, the prints within should be beautifully printed and presented in a clean and organized way, consecutively ordered.