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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He used the drawing as a kind of printing plate, stamping it onto a sheet of paper, almost like a monoprint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

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

Two works depict urban infrastructure: a monoprint of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, by Rachel Burgess, and a linocut of a power line, by Ondine Wolfe Crispin.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

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

The most recent works in Stovall’s show at Addison/Ripley Fine Art begin with his own mottled-color monoprints, which he has cut into thin strips that are arranged into vertically oriented collages.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2020

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

Loren Long’s illustrations for “Love,” collaged and painted monoprints, corroborate a child’s paradoxical, simultaneous confusion and clarity.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018

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

Photograph: Lisa Milroy/Tate I always began my sky paintings and monoprints of the 1990s by drawing the horizon line centimetres, even millimetres, above the bottom of the canvas or paper.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2013

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