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monotype
1[ mon-uh-tahyp ]
noun
- the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
- the method of producing such a print.
- Biology. the only type of its group, as a single species constituting a genus.
Monotype
2[ mon-uh-tahyp ]
- a brand of machine for setting and casting type, consisting of a separate keyboard for producing a paper tape containing holes in a coded pattern so that when this tape is fed into the casting unit each code evokes a unique letter cast from hot metal by a special matrix.
Monotype
1/ ˈ³¾É’²Ôəˌ³Ù²¹Éª±è /
noun
- any of various typesetting systems, esp originally one in which each character was cast individually from hot metal
- type produced by such a system
monotype
2/ ˈ³¾É’²Ôəˌ³Ù²¹Éª±è /
noun
- a single print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture has been painted
- biology a monotypic genus or species
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Example Sentences
The next year, Celia consulted the psychic, who, knowing none of the back story, described “beautiful papers with abstract designs†— which Celia took as a reference to her father’s monotypes — and his lung cancer.
That explains her affinity for monotypes, which are often made by applying pigment to a matrix that is then printed to yield a single, painterly impression.
The show’s centerpiece is “Filter,†made of about 2,000 tiny cutout monotypes in dozens of shapes; they swoop in nine undulating schools across two white walls.
Lining a Whitney gallery is the great 1982 series of monotypes based on the artist’s 1960 bronze sculpture of a Savarin can.
The result is not particularly “painterly†— it evokes instead the unique, inky contingency of monotypes.
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