The difference between 'printmaking' and 'digital'

[bridbird]

hi, i was wondering if i could make a point without sounding like a pain?

i have noticed a lot of digital prints in the printmaking section. i think it is great that madeit has created a 'printmaking' section rather than calling it 'prints' like a lot of other sites. but 'printmaking' means hand pulled prints, like linocut, etching, lithograph, screenprint. not digital, there is even a separate section for digital that isn't being used by some of the artists.

what is wrong with digital? why aren't digital prints being tagged as digital prints, it will clear up a lot of confusion for buyers.

sorry, rant over.

[bridbird]

ok, maybe i exaggerated about there being lots, and then i got carried away on my printmaker high horse. i'm sorry! forgive me.

[annalaura]

I think there should be a catagory called reproductions and artworks that are a reproduction of an artwork can go there. I listed one today and I put it under mixed media, which it isn't.

It is a digital print as well I guess, but it is not altered on the computer at all.

[madeit]

Yes, I see what you mean. They are scanning and printing it out therefore they think it's printmaking. I guess if I was doing this I would put it in digital but I have had some experience in printmaking.

What to do in this situation.. I can explain this in the next newsletter and add a new category.

Do you want to call it reproductions & artworks or artworks?

[rancho]

hi, i was wondering if i could make a point without sounding like a pain?

i have noticed a lot of digital prints in the printmaking section. i think it is great that madeit has created a 'printmaking' section rather than calling it 'prints' like a lot of other sites. but 'printmaking' means hand pulled prints, like linocut, etching, lithograph, screenprint. not digital, there is even a separate section for digital that isn't being used by some of the artists.

what is wrong with digital? why aren't digital prints being tagged as digital prints, it will clear up a lot of confusion for buyers.

sorry, rant over.
I think "digital" sounds too computerised for hand drawn/painted/collaged works which have been reproduced by a computerised printer.

I am just new to this site and have chosen printmaking, and not digital, as my category because I understand 'digital' to infer camera, paint/photo program, or some computerised generated image.

I have majored in printmaking and certainly know that a lot of hard work goes into a printed form but I'm not really offended by grouping original art works which have been copied with an editioned print.

I don't like the sound of 'reproduction' (just personally), it sounds too alienated from the artist.

What about a print and printmaking section?

[Emmarose]

I agree to me 'reproduction' makes it sound like somebody else's artwork. Perhaps there should be a sub-category in Art called 'limited editions' or somthing?

[boxofglory]

Maybe one should be called "printmaking" and the other should be called "artwork prints", that way there is a differentiation between the two, and then there is no mention of 'digital' or 'reproduction' that gets up people's goat?

[annalaura]

I don't think there is anything wrong with reproduction because that is what it is. Maybe a name like fine art prints sounds a little better but to me there are three distint catagories - Reproductions, Printmaking and Digital Art. I ended up putting my reproduction in the collage section as that is the type of artwork the original was, but it would be good to have a specific section for it, whatever it ends up being called.