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A native of Sarajevo, Tanja Softic studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (University of Sarajevo) from 1984 to 1988. In 1989, she was given a scholarship to Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she received her MFA. Soon after teaching for several years at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, in 2000 she joined the University of Richmond’s Department of Art and Art History, where she currently teaches. Right from 1992 until 1995, she worked tirelessly on a series of 5 handmade artist textbooks, using etching as well as letterpress which are part of the rare book series of the New York Public Library, Library of Congress and Boston Public Library.

Ángel Botello was a Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor and graphic artist. The artist pundits called him "The Caribbean Gauguin" for his use of vibrant colors and depictions of island lifestyle. He is considered one of the very best Latin-American post-modern artisans and acceptance and interest in his artwork continues to grow today, getting unprecedented auction pricing. Ángel Botello never ever connected to any certain artistic institution or movement and became a protean artisan: he established his own artistic style. Botello was a versatile and many-sided artisan who worked well in all creative media at his reach: oil paintings, sketching, printmaking, bronze sculptures, wood carving, photography and mosaics.

Intaglio engraving, as a technique of making prints, was developed in Germany by the 1430s, well following the woodcut print. Engraving had been utilized by goldsmiths in order to decorate metalwork, which includes armour, musical instruments as well as religious items ever since olden days, and the niello technique, that needed scrubbing an alloy into the traces to be able to provide a contrasting coloration, likewise dates back to late antiquity. It has been suggested that goldsmiths began to print impressions of their work to document the design, and that printmaking developed from that.

Martin Schongauer was one of the very first acknowledged artisans to exploit the copper-engraving technique, and Albrecht Dürer is one of the most famous intaglio artisans. Italian and Netherlandish engraving began somewhat after the Germans, but were well developed by 1500. Drypoint as well as etching were also German creations of the 15th century, probably by the Housebook Master and Daniel Hopfer respectively. The golden age of artists engraving was 1450-1550, and then the technique lost ground to etching as being a medium for artisans, although engravings continued to be made in huge numbers right until after the invention of photography. Today intaglio engraving is largely used for currency, banknotes, passports, and at times for high-value postage stamps. The look of engraving is oftentimes mimicked for things such as wedding invites by producing an embossment around letters printed by another process (such as lithography or offset) to indicate the edges of an engraving plate.

Matt Brown has made woodblock prints in Japanese hanga tradition since 1993 making use of Japanese equipments and materials. The artisan resides in the countryside of New Hampshire, one of the New England states on the East coast of the united states - the heartland of the American dream where the first immigrants from Europe landed with concepts of freedom, self-reliance and the desire of a far better life. Matt Brown's woodblock prints exhibit more than the natural beauties of the US East coast. In the point of view of the observer they reveal the old as well as genuine American values.

Printmaking is a very wide medium in art and can be learned nearly anywhere, in art institutions or from printmaking artists. Once you learn basic principles, you will discover there are many techniques to make a really good print.

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