L'Eau-forte, Instituto de Artes e Idiomas
Art and Language Institute
Drawing, engraving, water color | English, French, Spanish

Long artistic stay

The artistic stay provides you with 80h of practical course within a month, in a group of no more than 10 students.

In the beginning, the engraving was a process to duplicate an image but those days are gone. Had it been a mere industrial process, it would have disappeared since 1840, with the invention of photography.
Nowadays, many means to reproduce images exist; they are cheap and easy to use; digitalization can fulfil any need of picture reproduction.
Nevertheless, not only have engraving, etching and lithography not disappeared but, free from the needs they met, they proved to be what they were from the start: arts.

By studying engraving, you will experienced the reason why most greater plastic artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphaël, Rembrandt, Goya, Manet, Renoir, Picasso, Bacon exercised it.
You will discover the most surprizing art, an art whose result appears only after the completion of the work. You can never be sure of what you are going to get.

The course introduces you to the basics of engraving:

• Intaglio
• Etching
• Xylography

The material to start is provided: tools, plates, engraving paper, ink, etc.

Any engraver should wear protective glasses and gloves, and a thick overall to enter the workshop.

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