The Chinese were the first to use clay tiles, metals and wood for actual prints but mostly used it for text. in Europe they used printmaking to decorate cloth.
The Earliest Surviving Dated Complete Printed BookMay 11, 868
The picture above is of a scroll that is one of the most important sacred works of the Buddhist faith. is was printed with a woodblock carefully cut with lots of detail to make the same picture over and over again.
A portion of the Diamond Sutra.
Lion Realism
Digital print
2013
Katsushika Hokusai
Great Wave off Kanagawa
Woodcut print
Date unknown
Clarice aka (dino-wolf)
Leopard
Monoprint
2012
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