Los juegos de naipes. Evolución estética y técnica

Barbosa Bezerra De Souza, Bethania

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Barbosa Bezerra De Souza, Bethania

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The evolution of the design of the games of playing cards is intrinsically joined to the evolution of the graphical procedures derived from the press. Every technical advance in the sector of the graphical arts, it was providing an evolution in the aesthetics of the game of playing cards, since it was contributing better graphical quality to the drawings and the realized designs. In a principle the playing cards were elaborated totally to hand by artists of cards, from your beginning and up to the 14th century the accomplishment and the production of the playing cards was executing as works of art in miniatures. From the 15th century with the utilization of the most ancient procedure of printing: the woodcut, the diffusion of the playing cards increases substancialmente. It is possible to observe how the transformation of the drawings and the designs of the playing cards to the technical advances in the processes of printmaking from the 15th century up to the current importance, from the woodcut matrix to the offset plates. And it was thanks to the technological advances of the printed means that the games of playing cards could be spread and extended worldwide.