Printmaking Research Essay

1. Explain how you have investigated the unit’s Statement of Inquiry, Key and Related Concepts and Global Context, through researching and creating a print artwork.
Statement of Inquiry: The changing local and global environment can influence the way an artist responds and interprets subject matter.
I have learned and informed the way of diverse printmaking techniques. Using the strategies and considering each methods’ strengths and weakenesses, I created a linocut print that shows how infrastructure can destroy the nature.

2. Express your knowledge and understanding of the printmaking technique(s) and methods you used, including technology, processes and subject specific terminology. Describe why you chose the technique/s for your

Therefore, I divided part of infrastructure (top) and part of nature (bottom). For infrastructure, I wanted the part to be especially unrealizable, because most of them are man-made and are innovative. So I used a lot of straight lines (many buildings built are rectangular shaped). Some part contains dots that look like rocks, and these were to show that man-made things are little by little, eating up the nature.
For the nature part, I used more realizable objects, such as wood and flowers. They are carved in exactly what their shape are, and are mostly connected to each other - because they all come from the one same thing - earth.
The focal point of this print is the hand. I personified infrastructures, because modern technologies are man-made, so I thought that it would be nice to express infrastructure as a ‘big and strong person’ instead of just using rigid building figures. So the ‘person’ has a big lips and eye, not on its face but at the left side. Also, since a major part human uses to destroy the nature is hand, the biggest part with largest space in my print is hand (maybe I could have made the major part as lips like they are actually eating the nature). The hand is shaping that it is trying to grab or wrap up something. Next t o it, there are fire with carved lines. Creating fire, personified infrastructure is trying to catch the