monoprint

American  

[mahn-uh-print] / ˈmɑn əˌprɪnt /

noun

• monoprints
  plural

1. Art. a single, unique print made by printing from a plate of glass, metal, or other smooth material using oil paint or printer's ink, or the process of making such prints; monotype.

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verb (used with object)

monoprinted, monoprinting

1. Art. to produce as a single, unique print from a plate of glass, metal, or other smooth material using oil paint or printer's ink; monotype.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• monoprints
  plural

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Walter Benjamin saw the tragic nature of all history, and all serious art, as he gazed at a 1920 masterpiece by Paul Klee that he owned, a monoprint called Angelus Novus.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2021

A monoprint hanging near the entrance of O-Town House feels guided by automatic motion, spontaneous vitality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2019

It contains a famous meditation on Paul Klee’s monoprint “Angelus Novus.”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

Davis’s 1981 “Sky Code” is an intricate drawing that appears to represent a cryptographic method; Gilliam’s 1996 “As Kids Go” is an exuberant monoprint, individualized with collaged additions.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016

Or, after painting, the garment may be smoothed out and pressed against a second garment, making a kind of monoprint.

From New York Times ● May 23, 2013

It’s one of an edition of 472 unique monoprints — each one is different because the colors were silk-screened across them — that Warhol made for the Phillip Johnson-designed Hotel Marquette in Minneapolis.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2021

This includes lithographs, relief prints, monoprints and other works produced by artists such as Judith F. Baca, Lisa Adams, Carolyn Castaño, Diane Gamboa, Emily Cheng, Anita Bunn and many others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2019

His paintings, drawings, monoprints and other creations have incorporated themes of mythology, mathematics and reflections on his African heritage.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2015

A sequence of rachitic little drawings by Tracey Emin – whose monoprints are so ubiquitous as to have become museum wallpaper – cannot compete with those of her heroine, Louise Bourgeois.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2012

A series of silkscreen monoprints translates the sculpture’s roundabout motifs to paper, more gently.

From Washington Post

The shop dispenses a steady stream of YouTube videos, in which Gula — who’s a mixed-media artist — and other experts teach various techniques, like monoprinting on paper using paints and stencils.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2021

Those who enjoy getting creative might like these monoprinting plates.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2020

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