Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746-1828),
The
Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (O Sonho da Razao Produz Monstros),
1796-1797, first edition,
number 43 from the series "Los Caprichos", aquatint.
See Spanish art.
Francisco de Goya, Giant, by 1818, XIX, burnished aquatint,
first state; sheet: 11
1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (28.5 x 21.01 cm), Metropolitan Museum of
Art, NY.
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), Effet de pluie, 1879, etching, aquatint, and drypoint, plate: 6 5/16 x 8 3/8 inches (16 x 21.27 cm); sheet: 9 3/8 x 13 inches (23.81 x 33.02 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art. See Impressionism.
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar
Degas (French, 1834-1917), Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms, 1879-80,
etching
and aquatint, 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (17.1 x 21.6 cm), Los Angeles
County Museum of Art.
Martin Lewis (American, 1881-1962), Boss
of the Block, c. 1939, aquatint
and etching,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Barnett
Newman (American, 1905-1970), Untitled Etching #1, 1969, etching and aquatint, National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC. See Minimalism
and zip.
aquatint
- An intaglio, etching,
and tonal printing process
in which a porous ground
allows acid to penetrate
to form a network of small dots
in the plate, as well
as the prints made by this process. Aquatints often resemble wash drawings.
Any pure whites are stopped out entirely before etching begins,
then the palest tints are
bitten and stopped out,
and so on as in etching. This process is repeated 20 to 30 times
until the darkest tones
(deepest recesses in the plate)
are reached.
