What are the artistic features of printmaking? How to appreciate prints from a professional perspective?

Printmaking is one of the plastic arts. Paintings printed on various material layouts by the author through manual plate making; You can make limited copies of many original works without affecting the artistic value. Since18th century, painters have created prints through painting, plate making and printing by themselves. As a plastic art, printmaking refers to the creation of printmaking. Due to the different ink-receiving parts, plate properties and plate-making printing methods, plates are mainly divided into the following varieties.

Artistic features 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. Maximize the use of the true colors of objects to express the taste of 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 clever composition, you can show different styles of theme styles, such as fullness, density and simplicity. To sum up, China ancient prints have their own development track in the long history, forming a unique art, Mr. Zheng Zhenduo once said? Lizao painting is a great way to promote culture. This is an appropriate description of the artistic status of printmaking. The plane modeling of printmaking has the functions of visual aesthetics and pure art, the artistic expression process of printmaking is indirect, and the artistic effect has the aesthetic characteristics of diversity and impression art.

The concept of contemporary printmaking mainly refers to the artistic works conceived and created by artists, which are made through plate making and printing procedures. Specifically, it refers to a picture carved or etched on the pages of wood, stone, hemp, copper, zinc and so on with a knife or chemicals. Ink is in the concave part of the printing plate, representing the copper plate. Among them, due to different plate-making methods, it can be divided into line-engraved copper plates, dry-engraved copper plates, line-engraved copper plates and corroded copper plates. In addition, all kinds of gravure printing are made of zinc plate or other metal plates, and copper plate production and printing methods are still used now.

Also called? Missing edition? The ink color leaks to the receiving surface of the finished product through the perforated plate, which is manifested as screen printing leakage. In addition, the stencil printing method is also used to make stencil printed matter with nylon net, Capron net, metal net and other mesh materials as printing plates. Printmaking art has been accompanied by the invention and development of printing technology. 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.