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The term "print" has several meanings, so it is important to understand exactly what ismeant by the artistic terminology. A print in the artistic sense is not a reproduction of awork of art done in some other medium, such as painting or drawing. That can in no sensebe considered a work of art, since the artist had no involvement with it. A print is an originalwork of art created by an indirect method. Instead of making an image directly on a surface,as in drawing or painting, the artist works on a master surface, which may be a sheet ofmetal, a block of stone, wood, plastic, or linoleum. From this master surface, numerousimpressions may be made by inking the surface, laying a sheet of paper on it, and thensubjecting both surface and paper to pressure, generally by means of a printing press.A print may exist in several versions. Sometimes the printmaker alters the image betweenimpressions, so that each print is slightly different from the others. Any series of such printsis referred to as multiples. The number of impressions (known as the edition) that arepossible from a single original varies with the material. Prints made from linoleum, whichwears readily, will be fewer than those made from a metal plate, which is capable of strikingfine-quality prints in the thousands. It is customary to number prints as they come off thepress, the earlier impressions being the finest and therefore the most desirable.Prints incorporate the same compositional principles, as paintings. Line, shape, or texturemay be the predominant element according to the printing technique used. Some prints haveobvious decorative qualities while others may be filled with emotional impact.Printmaking derives from two historical sources: early woodblocks into which animage was cut and used to illustrate a book or playing cards, and the medieval practice ofdecorating metal with incised designs, as in armor. Today most techniques fall into one offour categories: relief( intaglio, lithography, and serigraphy. However, there are manyvariations, combinations with photographic techniques, and considerable overlapping.
20. In the artistic sense, a print is a work of art created by
(A) making a painting from an original drawing
(B) drawing or painting similar images many times
(C) transferring an original image from one surface to another
(D)copying an original image made on paper onto a hard surface

參考答案

答案：C[無官方正解]
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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