About The Artist:
David Manzur
Manzur was born in Neira, Calda, and advanced his first studies in the School of Beautiful Arts of Bogota. The Colombian artist, David Manzur Londoño who began in the art in Oilbag, a Spanish post station in Equatorial Guinea, where she lived from the 3 to the 17 years, studied in the School of Claret Art in the Palms, Islands The Canary Islands, before entering the School of Beautiful Arts in Bogota. Manzur tried diverse forms of...
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About The Medium:
Etching
The printing process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In traditional pure etching, a metal (usually copper, zinc or steel) plate is covered with a waxy ground which is resistant to acid. The artist then scratches off the ground with a pointed etching needle where they want a line to appear in the finished piece, exposing the bare metal. The plate is then put through a high-pressure printing press together with a sheet of paper (often moistened to soften it). The paper picks up the ink from the etched lines, making a print.