What is printmaking? What painting tools does it need?

Printmaking is an important category of visual arts. Broadly speaking, printmaking can include that the graphics printed before printing industrialization are generally printmaking. The concept of contemporary printmaking mainly refers to the artistic works conceived and created by artists through plate-making and printing procedures, specifically, the pictures carved or etched on pages such as wood, stone, hemp, copper and zinc with knives or chemicals.

Printmaking art has been accompanied by the invention and development of printing technology. Ancient prints mainly refer to woodcuts, but a few copperplate prints and overprinting are not allowed. The unique taste of knife wood makes it have independent artistic value and position in the history of China culture and art.

Carve on wood, stone, linen, copper and zinc plates with knives or chemicals.

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Printmaking has visual aesthetic 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 imprinting art. China's prints are works of combining sensibility and rationality, while western prints have experienced the transformation from completely objective rationality to completely subjective emotion.

Tracing back to the history of woodcut prints, we have to talk about the sculpture history of China. Archaeological data show that the history of carving art in China can be traced back to the late Neolithic Age 7000 years ago.

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