Printmaking is closely related to sculpture. What are the characteristics of China prints?

Prints are plastic arts. Among the four recognized categories of Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking and sculpture in China, printmaking is the oldest and youngest. Compared with other paintings, China prints show independent national consciousness and mature emotions, and become a vibrant painting in China. China Printmakers Association has a full member of 1800, and there are more than 40 printmaking associations and research institutes in China. As of 1994, the national printmaking exhibition held every two years has been continuously exhibited for 12 sessions, calling for China? World printmaking power? It is also worthy of the name.

When appreciating a large number of works left by printmaking in the development process of nearly a thousand years, the following artistic features are worth noting: 1 Make full use of the true colors of objects to express wood (woodcut). 2. clever use? Keep it black? Techniques, to describe the characters for special treatment, in order to obtain the unique artistic effect of prints. 3. Give full play to the characteristics of carving watermark, so that large-scale carving has a strong artistic effect. 4. Through ingenious composition, different styles such as fullness and density, simplicity and simplicity are used to set off the theme style.

Printmaking is an important category of China fine arts. Ancient prints mainly refer to woodcuts, but there are also a few copper prints and overprinting omissions. Its unique flavor of knives and axes makes it have independent artistic value and position in the history of China culture and art. The origins of China prints are Han Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Six Dynasties and Sui Dynasty. Sculpture refers to decorations and memorials, symbols or hieroglyphics carved to beautify the environment or commemorate the significance. Sculpture is a plastic art.

As the name implies, as long as artists use knives, pens or other tools, they can draw, carve and corrode different plates such as metal, slate, wood, cardboard, jute, plastic and screen printing. Then the artwork printed by himself is considered as printed matter. Printmaking is different from ordinary painting because it uses specific plates, tools and printing characteristics, and it is precisely because of its own limitations that it has the characteristics of printmaking art. To sum up, China ancient printmaking has its own development track in the long history and formed a unique art. Mr. Zheng Zhenduo once said? Pear and jujube painting, promoting culture, is commendable? This is an appropriate description of the artistic status of printmaking. Visual aesthetics and pure artistic function of printing plane modeling. The indirectness of the artistic expression process of printmaking, the diversity of artistic effects and the aesthetic characteristics of impression art.