The Artistry of Black and White Woodcut Prints

Black and white woodcut prints have the following artistic characteristics worth noting:

1 Using the object's original color as much as possible, showing the wood flavor.

2 Skillful use of the "stay black" technique, the carving of the form of special treatment, to obtain the unique artistic effect of prints.

3 Playing the characteristics of engraved watermarks, so that the large block of Yangquan produce strong artistic effects.

4 Through skillful composition, different styles such as full and dense and sparse and simple are used to set off the theme.

Here are a few woodblock prints - printmakers You can search for their works to enrich the paper

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Germany Kathe Kollwitz (en:Kathe Kollwitz) (1867-1945)

Norway Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Spain Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Spain Picasso (1881-1973)

These are the most famous printmakers in the world. Spain Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

China Chen Hongshou (1588-1652)

Kai Qi (1774-1829)

Yan Han (1916-)

Gu Yuan (1919-1996)

Yeh Chanyu (1907-1995)

Japan Toshusai Sharaku (b. and d. unknown)

Japan unknown)

Suzuki Harunobu (1725 - 1770)

Torii Kiyonaga (1752 - 1815)

Eizumi Eizumi Kesai (1791 - 1848)

Goma Kitagawa (1753 - 1806)

Katsuya Hokusai ( 1760 - 1849)

Kagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)

Specific information is available in Baidu Encyclopedia/v236668.htm#2

Western printmaking attaches great importance to the inheritance of traditional techniques, so analyzing the works of the old Western black-and-white woodblock printmakers and their content and techniques is the perfect way of writing an essay.

Currently, China is obsessed with the development of new materials, so new materials are also a point of focus

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