Talk:À la poupée

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Kaldari in topic Lead is confusing

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The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk05:48, 25 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

 
Mary Cassatt, The Fitting, 1890,
  • ... that sometimes it took Mary Cassatt and a printer 8 hours hard work to make 8 or 10 coloured prints (example pictured) using à la poupée inking? Source: Cassatt wrote: "...Sometimes we worked all day (eight hours) both as hard as we could work and only printed eight or ten proofs in the day". Quoted in Ives, Colta Feller, The Great Wave: The Influence of Japanese Woodcuts on French Prints, pp 45-46, 1974, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN 0-87099-098-5

5x expanded by Johnbod (talk). Self-nominated at 19:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC).Reply

Lead is confusing

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The first two sentences were very confusing to me until I read the Technique section. In particular, I assumed that "one for each colour" meant "one plate for each color", not "one wad of cloth for each color", as color printmaking often involves multiple plates (and of course you wouldn't use the same cloth for different ink colors). Then when I read the second sentence, I imagined some kind of complicated assembly-line process where the paper gets pressed by multiple plates in a single run. Once I read the Technique section, I realized that my understanding from the lead was completely wrong. Kaldari (talk) 19:28, 2 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Frankly I think it is your preconceptions that are causing the trouble - probably most readers won't have these. I've adjusted to "technique for making colour prints by applying different ink colours to a single printing plate using ball-shaped wads of cloth, one for each colour." which makes this misunderstanding more difficult. 21:48, 2 September 2020 (UTC)