Intaglio vs Etching - What's the difference?
intaglio | etching |
A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
(lb) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
(lb) The image created by this process.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching ; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
As verbs the difference between intaglio and etching
is that intaglio is while etching is .As a noun etching is
(lb) the art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.intaglio
English
(wikipedia intaglio)Noun
- On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.
