aquatint
noun
a process imitating the broad flat tints of ink or wash drawings by etching a microscopic crackle on the copperplate intended for printing.
aquatints
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present tense formof aquatint (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“Sean Scully: The Shape of Ideas” opened in April at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with more than 100 works, including some of his most monumental paintings, along with drawings, woodcuts, etchings and aquatints.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
The show’s high points are “Six Bardos,” a suite of large aquatints from 2018 inspired by the six intervals between life and death in Buddhism.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
There are images of American plenty — Richard Diebenkorn’s vibrant West Coast aquatints, David Hockney’s Los Angeles swimming pool — and American achievement, such as Rauschenberg’s prints of the Apollo 11 moon mission.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2017
Two exhibitions within strolling distance provide access to an eye-popping 327 examples of Picasso’s etchings, aquatints, lithographs and linocuts.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2010
But while Bartolozzi stipple engravings or Janinet aquatints in color might have commanded higher prices than Callots or Goyas, or even than many Dürers and Rembrandts, no one was fooled.
From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen
