What are the artistic features of printmaking?

The artistic features of printmaking are as follows:

1 is an artistic work conceived and created by an artist and produced by a plate-making and printing process. It is carved or etched on the pages of wood, stone, hemp, copper and zinc with a knife or chemicals, and then printed.

Technically, it has been accompanied by the invention and development of printing. It should be noted that ancient prints are mainly woodcut, but a few copperplate prints and overprinting are not allowed;

3. The unique taste of knife and wood makes it have independent artistic value and position in the history of China culture and art;

4. Historically, it has gone through two stages, from copying to creation. In early printmaking, painters, sculptors and printers cooperated with each other, and sculptors only carved plates according to drawings. The engraving of the back painting is done by the printmaker alone, so that the printmaker can give full play to his artistic creativity;

5. Use the method of "leaving black" to treat the depicted characters specially, so as to obtain the unique artistic effect of printmaking, give play to the characteristics of engraving watermark, and make a large block of engraving have strong artistic effect.

Extended data:

Through ingenious composition, printmaking sets off different styles of themes such as fullness, density and simplicity, and has its own development track in the long history, forming a unique art;

Printmaking is a kind of painting form that can copy many works with the same content, and is printed by the author in limited quantities. Usually, paintings with higher print runs are of higher quality, while paintings with lower print runs will be difficult to master because of wear and tear during reproduction. After a predetermined number of works are completed, the master will generally be destroyed.

Before the 1930s, printmaking was still copying printmaking. Starting from 193 1, the new woodcut initiated by Lu Xun began to create prints in China. Emerging prints and ancient copying prints are not only very different in production technology, but also qualitatively different in artistic function and practical significance.

Emerging printmaking has been closely related to the liberation of the Chinese nation and the fate of the broad masses of people since its birth. It is an important part of China's revolutionary literature and art and the main force of left-wing art in 1930s.

Printmakers stepped onto the historical stage as artists and revolutionary fighters, and took art as a fighting weapon in a clear-cut manner, which played a great role in the ideological education front.

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