What is the art of drawing or printing on stone called?

Answer 1

lithography - you print from a stone to which you have chemically applied an image...by the way the original type of stone that lithographers use is no longer quarried

Answer 2

LITHOGRAPHY: A printmaking technique that exploits the repulsion of grease and water. The image is drawn with some greasy material, which may be a special lithographic crayon or a liquid "tusche" applied with a pen or brush, on a hard flat surface. This was originally a finely grained slab of limestone ("lithography" means "stone drawing"), but sheets of zinc and aluminum have also been widely used. The next stage is the so-called "etch," a chemical treatment by which the image is fixed on the printing surface. The surface is then dampened with water, which is repelled by the greasy marks that make up the image and settles only in the untouched areas. When a greasy, oil-based ink is rolled over the whole, the opposite happens—it is held by the greasy marks and repelled by the wet areas between. A piece of paper is laid on the surface and both are run through a scraper press, which transfers the ink in an even rub across the paper's back.

The great attraction for artists is that drawing on the stone or metal is as free and easy as drawing on paper, and allows for rich tonal effects. Since the printing surface is created directly in the act of drawing, most artists have left the rest of the processs in the hands of professional printers. Lithography was invented in 1798. Being so directly responsive to the artist's individual hand, it has assumed a great variety of different appearances. It is sometimes classified as a "planographic" or "surface" technique.

http://www.sdmart.org/lautrec/Glossary.html

Answer 3

Lithography literally means writing or drawing on stone. Various methods were used to produce books lithographically , but in practice just two methods predominated. First, writing directly onto the lithographic stone, that is, writing in reverse or mirror-writing, using lithographic ink and steel pen, a difficult technique to master and therefore comparatively slow but which gave the best-quality results. Secondly, writing on transfer paper, that is, writing in the normal way on to specially prepared paper, this writing then being transferred (Hence the name of the paper) by a relatively simple operation so that it appeared in reverse o the stone and therefore the correct way round for printing. The writing or design on the stone was then retracted with the greasy lithographic ink, "a solution of gum-lac in potash coloured with Jamp-blck produced from burning wax", to quote a contemporary description.

Answer 4

i'm not sure if this is what you mean, but some societies painted on rocks or in caves with plant dyes (not sure what that is specifically called other than 'painting'), and other societies etched and carved drawings in the rock/stone itself. the images are called 'petroglyphs,' so maybe this is called 'etching' or 'petroglyphing'??!

Answer 5

serigrafic printing a very old tecnic

Answer 6

I think it might be a from of engraving.

Answer 7

lithography

Answer 8

sculpture.