Printing picture and pit printing

Writings, drawings, and pictures can be seen on the walls of the caves which can be seen in very first ages of the human history. Starting from those days, these things reached to or time, today. Scratches starting with hunting scenes, animal and human motives became an identical type of the era. Looking to those figures on the Wall, we can understand many things such as their names, how do they call themselves, animals that they hunt for food an deven maybe the person that they feel close to themselves. These wors have started an art travel by reflecting person's emotions and ideas. This travel moved on with cuneiform found by the Sumerians and slowly started to create intaglio printing technique. This technique was mostly used by the jewelers in 15 century. Associated with, Reneissance, artists have developed interest to this technique. Along with, printings of famous artists, they influenced next generation artists. This technique has come to today under the name of intaglio printing. In the first chapter of this thesis, the historical process of the earliest artistic phenomena, cave paintings, printmaking, and the art of engraving have been examined. In the second chapter of the thesis, the use of animal imagery in engraving art and examples of foreign artists who incorporate animal imagery into their works have been provided. In the third chapter, Turkish printmaking artists who focused on animal imagery in engraving art and predominantly worked with animal figures in their works were researched. Keywords: Engraving, Printmaking, Art, Artist, Animal İmage.