Pressure + Ink: Lithography Process

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Produced in conjunction with the exhibition German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse.
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[@artisticbuilding6852]

SO many steps, difficult to believe this was invented to make prints easier!

[@fazilsaycraze]

can't get enough of this clip. awesome! it's like a lovechild of chemistry and art.

[@scottleft3672]

how on earth did they work this out..??!....trial and error..?

[@oblivexx]

I'm kinda curious to see how the hell the process was even conceived to this modern way.

[@ccoyle8502]

lithography is a printmaking method that has been largely replaced by aluminum plates. It used to be the premiere choice of printing for many types of marketing. Once the stone plate has an image, that plate can produce many, many more identical prints than a wood block, which will wear down over time. I saw a set of circus posters done on plates over 50 years after they were made - looked like color laser prints. Once photographic technology arrived, lithography processes altered dramatically.

[@douglasascencio9140]

This has been a genuinely entertaining video, it kept me smiling all the way through.

[@zaprodk]

Wow, what a good and instructive video. I just love to see artists working like that. Pure art!

[@Jgiko]

I just purchased my first stone lithography art and I did not know until I reached home and searched for the artist and his biography. It was from a boutique in Lund, Sweden that is about to close. I was looking for modern art to decorate my house and the purchased item catches my eyes. I know it was a fine work of art and I had a bargain. Actually, it turned out to be a Bruno Bruni’s art.

[@tylerjulio4167]

Low key this is like asmr to me

[@no3rdw]

This is incredible. I never knew there was so much to this method.

[@slipton6493]

Thanks for such a clear, easy to understand video about lithography!

[@maurodriguesxr]

someday I have to do that. it's so cool and has such a potential to make an artistic or decorative piece with real quality.

[@annacoates8575]

awesome... I have searched and searched the internet to find a good example of lithography. Thanks !!

[@JR-vf8bn]

That was awesome; so explicit. Thank you

[@pammy77boo]

This is SO AWESOME!! I would love to learn how to do that!!

[@olufemioyewole3040]

Lovely demonstrations! !!

[@code-52]

What a wonderful process. I would love to do that.

[@Jakerski]

i am wrting a test tommorow about this. Helped me alot, even though i am learning this in Greek.

[@susiek4929]

thanks for this super informative video!

[@NickVenture1]

Thank you. Clear and concise to give a first idea about the process. Motivating to emulate in this craft. I would like to know more now and explore the more modern way of transferring images onto the stone. Such as with the negative of a photography. And also to use other support for the etching than lime stone.

[@valentinahine8821]

Excellent explanations and video!

[@michaelcorbridge8132]

awesome, loved this...thank you so much.

[@Argoon1981]

Printing images to paper and be able to reproduce that printing over and over again without losing quality, before modern printing tech this was the only way to reliably make large numbers of similar printings like posters, newspapers, magazines etc.

[@brucebenik2]

This makes me appreciate MC Escher even more

[@nigelroche7888]

Thank you that was very interesting, my father always talked about litho printing but never explained the detail.

[@wittytalk]

Very helpful! I read all about the process but coulnt quite understand it until I saw this video thanks.

[@chaseaflu9722]

fab vid and presentation. big ups n thanks

[@fazilsaycraze]

awesome video clip!

[@andrecinelli]

Thanks for the video! I was looking for something that explained how some of MC Escher works were made. Thanks very muck!

[@SoumyaDeyOnGoogle]

Magical. Simply magical.

[@echoz3557]

Thank you!

[@bozhoumen2591]

What a magic stone! It absorbs both water and oil! It's like sponge!

[@sosijiz1971]

After years of admiring Escher, now I LOVE him even more. So complex, so difficult, so beautiful. Erm, probably quite costly too, but worth it in the long run, I suppose!

[@MAsh-yt3fw]

Very good video!

[@sousiago]

I just finished reading Susie Hodge's "The short story of art" and came here to understand how lithography is made. Great explanation, thanks!

[@Dariuz001]

Very usefull! Thank you.

[@CerridwenVids]

Very instructive. : )

[@doesntmatter2505]

Nice!

[@emy1111]

Nice video thanks! Wouldn't you roll up the image in 'non dry' black before applying the etch?

[@terryheasley7027]

Amazing.

[@mohitmishra1984]

Awesome man

[@elliehague5278]

I am wanting to do something that looks like lithography drawings for my AP art portfolio, can anyone recommend any artistic practices/medium that could get a look similar to lithography?

[@hevad]

How many prints before having to re-ink the stone? Are stones reusable? Or once they've been used for a print they are etched forever?

[@MTtataa]

What a wizardry just happend 🤣

[@neptune9961]

Fascinating

[@Argoon1981]

Printing images to paper and be able to reproduce that printing over and over again without losing quality, before modern printing tech this was the only way to reliably make large numbers of similar printings like posters, news papers magazines etc.

[@sockpuppet73160]

Howdy! - My father gave me a lithograph stone that belonged to my grandfather - it appears to be made of granite ( i am not sure) It has white blotches, faded white blotches and what appears to be tiny white lines - how can I clean this without fading the image. thank you in advance for your speedy reply

[@neoseyes]

How strong was the etch?

[@TheMadisonHang]

when buying old books makes me wonder how books with color and graphics were made before digital

[@simonpursertexas]

Cool man..

[@nithinthesedays]

Really good video

[@abstractbybrian]

Can you do this without an expensive press?

[@ccmutio]

Is the process the same when you do it on an aluminum plate instead of a stone? BTW, thank you for sharing, this is a great video! :)

[@rancon265]

I see artists offering lithographs of their original oil paintings. How are those prints marketed as Lithographs? The original is not on a rock,it's on canvas or board.

[@DeadlyxXxNightShades]

what is the purpose of lithography

[@rocktothebone91]

Great :)

[@cheyenneb4263]

what a process..

[@wheelwatcher]

I like Crayola KRANS!

[@matof1428]

Litography, mother of the modern printing industry...

[@dychoi8952]

굿굿

[@MrNeenee1995]

i know that usin a computer is the main choose but you could not draw that mutch detail and then get that same image printed thats why people still uses this process

[@scrbxadubdub]

holy duck!

[@408Magenta]

Remarkable. I really wonder how all the trial and error with all the various chemicals and substances ever came about. This goes back to the early 1800s if I'm not mistaken. Wow!

[@408Magenta]

PS: Great video!

[@c.2538]

So this is very thorough & well done but I still don’t understand how any of it works lol

[@bencanfield]

How is the stone made to be so flat?

[@stevendavis3991]

how much does something like this cost artists?

[@lopiklop]

Thank you I just wanted to know what a lithograph was. "Based on the Greek words stone writing, lithography originally used the immiscibility of oil and water to produce prints" Google's unsatisfying answer. Oh by the way this guy could definitely sell this knowledge, we didn't need to know that much, it was like an apprenticeship.

[@Juvibez]

what did he say licotine ?

[@riggamorrischan]

This is how my signed Lithograph by Lorde was made?? Tea

[@am4404]

I literally looked up this video because I ordered the same one and wasn't sure what a lithograph was LOL

[@431279mr]

Omg I'm literally here for the same reason

[@kyolym]

oh for heavens sakes just shove the dam thing in a zerox phhhhhhhhhhh

[@hounddoggy7]

Besides the drawing, I don't see this process as art. I see it as following and mastering a process - a much more rigid and scientific way of thinking. I've always found printmaking to be very confining artistically.

[@StephenSchleis]

Anybody here from reading Walter Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction?

[@ONTIVIDKING_STUDIO_8629]

Only the drew part of the stone can wipe ink.

[@pukefacetoilet]

i am a new artist, 43 yrs old, and have found out that I might have the 'x" factor. Kinda weird, I was just doing sketches, and coloring them in, I have a real artist friend that does amazing life like portraits in oil, and he tells me I have the thing. Ok, so, now I have all kinds of things to think about, but this video, so educational, makes me want to try different things.

[@robertparker2767]

who is here cuz of a school assignment

[@matof1428]

Water and ink.... All the modern offset printing machines works on same principle.

[@wynkindeworde6504]

This is crude simple printing from stone - chromolithography is far more amazing!

[@57mobird]

Interesting process. Just one correction, though: it is impossible that touching the stone with fingers would leave an image because of "grease from my skin", as he put it, because there aren't sebaceous (oil) glands in the palms and fingers, so no grease will come off of them. Maybe he meant sweat, because the hands do have sweat glands. Just sayin:)

[@gabriellas]

what. how. when. WHO.

[@NonTwinBrothers]

This video is a 10/10 in presentation and information. The Yoko Ono screams video is a solid 0/10

[@josephjasonsantiagolacour]

escher

[@bubbapinks5175]

too much science for an artist

[@cyspiegel8603]

I had an interest in lithography until I saw this... to many steps smh

[@ellitestar]

why didn't ur hottie helper appear more visibly on the video, she shy or somethin? i know im being a hotdogger...sorry