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woodcut::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | wood block, wood engraving |
| Type of | engraving |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | wood engraving |
| Type of | engraving |
Examples of woodcut
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One gallery here is devoted to black-and-white woodcut prints and ink drawings.
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Woodcut art is created when an image is carved into the surface of a wooden block.
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Early herbals had simple, not very realistic, woodcut illustrations of plants.
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Detail from a Hiroshige woodcut from his Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.
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A woodcut depicting a witches'sabbat, produced by Hans Baldung Grien in 1508.
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But this is simply a woodcut image while the original FA image is a painting.
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The Xianbei used woodcut tallies called Kemu as a form of non-verbal communication.
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In the woodcut, the woman has just recognized that the stranger is Odysseus.
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Later initials were printed using separate blocks in woodcut or metalcut techniques.
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- A print made from a woodcut
- Engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
- Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of woodu2014typically with gougesu2014leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to produce the print...
- (Woodcutting) Logging is the process in which certain trees are cut down by a lumberjack or machine, such as the feller buncher, for forest management and timber.
- A print or a method of printmaking from an engraved block of wood
- (WOODCUTS) AND LINOCUTS. One of the oldest types of printing is the WOODCUT where an image is drawn on the surface of a wooden BLOCK, the areas to remain white are cut away. INK is applied to the remaining surface and the image is transferred in reverse onto the PAPER. ...
- An illustration in lines of varying thickness, cut in relief on plank-grain wood, for the purpose of making prints.
- Illustrations produced when the original printing plate was engraved on a block of wood. One of the oldest methods of printing, dating back to 8^th century China.
- Printing technique in which the printing surface has been carved from a block of wood. The traditional wood block is seasoned hardwood such as apple, beech or sycamore. Woodcut is one of the oldest forms of printing dating back to the 12th century.
