Printmaking is a painting art with "printing" as the medium. As long as an artist uses a knife, pen or other tools to draw, carve and corrode on different plates such as metal, slate, wood board, cardboard, offset, plastic board and silk screen printing, and then prints out his own artistic works, it is considered as a print.
Artistic feature
1. Try to use the true colors of objects to express wood flavor (woodcut).
2. Ingeniously use the technique of "leaving black" to give special treatment to the depicted characters and obtain the unique artistic effect of printmaking.
3. Give full play to the characteristics of carving watermark, so that large-scale carving has a strong artistic effect.
4. Through ingenious composition, the theme style is set off by different styles such as fullness, density and simplicity.
To sum up, China ancient printmaking has its own development track in the long history, forming a unique artistic form, and printmaking has the visual aesthetics of plane modeling and its pure artistic function. Prints have the indirectness of artistic expression process, the multiplicity of artistic results and the aesthetic characteristics of imprint art.