What's the difference between Chinese painting, printmaking, sketch and sketch?

The word Chinese painting originated in the Han Dynasty. People in the Han Dynasty thought that China lived in heaven and earth, so he called it China. China's paintings were abbreviated as "Chinese paintings". Mainly refers to scroll paintings painted on silk, rice paper and silk and mounted. Chinese painting is a traditional painting form of Han nationality. It is painted on silk or paper with a brush dipped in water, ink and color. Tools and materials include brushes, ink, Chinese painting pigments, rice paper, silk and so on. Themes can be divided into figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc. And techniques can be divided into figurative and freehand brushwork. Chinese painting embodies the ancients' understanding of nature, society, politics, philosophy, religion, morality, literature and art in content and artistic creation.

Printmaking is an important category of visual arts. Broadly speaking, printmaking can include that the graphics printed before printing industrialization are generally printmaking. The concept of contemporary printmaking mainly refers to the artistic works conceived and created by artists through plate-making and printing procedures, specifically, the pictures carved or etched on pages such as wood, stone, hemp, copper and zinc with knives or chemicals. Printmaking art has been accompanied by the invention and development of printing technology. Ancient prints mainly refer to woodcuts, but a few copperplate prints and overprinting are not allowed. The unique taste of knife wood makes it have independent artistic value and position in the history of China culture and art.

Sketch, as its name implies, is a quick method of sketching. Sketch is China's original vocabulary, which belongs to a kind of sketch.

Sketch, like sketch, is not only the foundation of plastic arts, but also an independent art form. This independent form was established after Europe18th century. Prior to this, sketch was only the preparation stage and recording means of artists' creation.

Sketch is a quick sketch technique in art. Just like when we are building, we need to design the outline of a building first, and sketch also means this. English name: sketch means sketch in Chinese. With the development of art, sketch has become a compulsory subject in art study.

Sketch, broadly speaking, refers to all monochromatic paintings, which originated from the cultivation of western modeling ability. Sketch in a narrow sense refers to the painting training process used to learn art skills, explore modeling rules and cultivate professional habits. In short, it is monochrome painting. However, this is not entirely correct. After all, sketch covers too many things and solves too many problems. Sketching process is a comprehensive thinking activity that considers many problems at the same time.