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the art of drawing on stone and tricking grease into hating water.
means A print made by drawing on a flat stone or metal plate with a greasy substance, then using the natural repulsion between grease and water so ink sticks only where you drew.
from From Greek 'lithos' (stone) plus 'graphein' (to write or draw) — literally 'stone-writing.' The technique itself was invented around the turn of the 19th century by Alois Senefelder in Bavaria, who was reportedly looking for a cheap way to print his own plays and stumbled onto the grease-and-water trick on a slab of limestone.
- grease vs water
- Oil-based ink sticks to drawing, wet stone repels it
- named for stone
- Greek lithos means stone, graphein means to write
- limestone star
- Bavarian Solnhofen limestone made the finest plates
- invented 1796
- German Alois Senefelder stumbled onto it scribbling a laundry list
- mass medium
- Posters by Toulouse-Lautrec turned cabaret into wall art
currier and ives prints — american printmaking company produced over 7,000 lithograph designs from 1835-1907
picasso's bull series — pablo picasso created 11 progressive lithographs of a bull between december 1945-january 1946