Chalcographic Engraving University Extension Course Aranjuez

The Chalcographic Engraving University Extension Course in Aranjuez responds to the increasing interest among students to explore the realm of traditional engraving and stamping techniques. While these techniques may have modest origins, they found widespread application among the majority of 20th-century artists, leaving behind an impressive repository of images that have become a cornerstone of art history.

Notable artists such as Picasso, Miró, Chillida, and Tapies, all hailing from our own country, have demonstrated the potential of these techniques. They are techniques that have largely contributed to the dissemination of knowledge, accompanying the book from its origins, and that, in addition to this, have left such outstanding works of art, in their long history, such as the famous engravings by Dürer, Rembrandt or 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 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 makes the profile of students who are interested in this branch of Fine Arts broaden to students of degrees in Comprehensive Design and Image Management and Design and Fashion 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 the creation of graphic languages ​​that are very necessary in the early stages of the formation of the creative industries.

Goals

• 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.
• Meet Today's Artists. Graphic work today.