Etching & Aquatint

We will talk about the possibilities and challenges of working with aquatint this week. Below are some of the images we looked at last week. You should be familiar with each of these artists.


Paul Klee, Comedian (Komiker) from the series Inventions (Inventionen), 1904. Etching and aquatint, plate: 6 x 6 5/8"
Click here to see more Klee etchings at MoMA


Max Klinger, Abduction ("End of the dream"), from A Glove (Paraphrase of the Finding of a Glove), 1878/1880, etching and aquatint on chine collé (state I/II)


Francisco Goya, La Tauromaquia, c. 1815


Otto Dix, Meal time in the Trenches, 1923-24