University Extension Course in Relief Engraving in Fuenlabrada

Presentation

In recent years, many students have expressed their interest in learning about traditional engraving and stamping techniques. Techniques of humble origin, but which were widely used by the vast majority of XNUMXth century artists, and through which they left an impressive legacy of images for art history. See, for

For example, the engraved work of Picasso, Miró, Chillida, Tapies..., to refer only to artists from our country. They are techniques that have largely contributed to the dissemination of knowledge, accompanying the book from its origins, and which, in addition to this, have left such outstanding works of art, in its long history, such as the famous engravings by Dürer, Rembrandt or Goya. Techniques, in short, that any specialist in the world of imaging should know and know how to value.

Every day more contemporary artists make use of traditional engraving techniques, to include them in a current environment in an interdisciplinary way, as is the case of KanYoung Lee, Andy Farkas, Endi Poskovic or Ángela Harding among many other artists.

The techniques of engraving and stamping provide the artist with numerous resources to be able to apply in his work and we consider it extremely important that they are known in order to have a complete training in the different disciplines of the Fine Arts.

In addition, traditional engraving and printing techniques have been used in other disciplines within the field of design and the arts, such as textile design and graphic design, which have been nourished by these traditional printing techniques to develop and evolve in these disciplines. design. This means that the profile of students who are interested in this branch of Fine Arts is broadened towards students of the degrees in Comprehensive Design and Image Management and Fashion Design and Management.

The new technologies have done nothing more than add new paths and tools with which to work traditional printing and stamping systems, today so valid and in demand within the art and design market in general. The printing workshops are spaces for research and creation of graphic languages ​​that are very necessary in the early stages of the formation of the creative industries.

Objectives

• Meet the existing demand among students of the degrees of Fine Arts, Fashion and Comprehensive Design for knowing the techniques of engraving and stamping.
• Complete the training of students with the knowledge of a specialty that does not exist within the regulated education in the
• Enrich the knowledge acquired in the degree of Fine Arts, Fashion and Comprehensive Design with new techniques and knowledge of artistic expression.
• Provide the knowledge of ancestral techniques to artists in training, so that they can use them in their creations.
• Develop the knowledge and technical procedures necessary for artistic production in the field of graphic work.
• To know Artists of the graphic work in the actuality.