Dürer made use of the expansion of the printing press in the fifteenth and sixteenth century to become one of the most important printmakers in art history. Dürer used the intaglio process to make his prints. Explore this process. What are the various steps involved? What elements of the composition does the process accentuate? How did Dürer exploit those elements for aesthetic ends? Art>Art Techniques>Printmaking>Intaglio http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/2/3/2.html
The works of sixteenth-century German artists often had a strong linear quality. Investigate the various ways that line can be used to create different effects, and analyze sixteenth-century German art in light of the findings. What effects did artists such as Dürer and Cranach create through their use of line? How did those effects differentiate their work from that of their Dutch contemporaries? Art>Elements of Art>Line>Line Quality>Examples http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/1/1/1/6.html
Hans Holbein the Younger shared with fifteenth-century Dutch artists a fondness for elaborately detailed surface patterns. Explore the various means by which artists can create a sense of texture in a two-dimensional space. Which method did Holbein use to convey a sense of texture? Discuss his use of both color and line. Art>Elements of Art>Texture>Visual Texture>Introduction http://www.mhhe.com/ArtStudio/1/3/2/1.html
