Origin of Printmaking: The origin of China Printmaking includes Han Dynasty, Eastern Jin Dynasty, Six Dynasties and even Sui Dynasty. The earliest existing print in China, dated, is the "Xian Tong" version of the world-famous "King Kong Prajna Paramita Sutra", which was written in 868 AD according to the inscription. The "Zhide" seal unearthed from the Tang Tomb in Chengdu, Sichuan Province is estimated to be about 100 years earlier than the "Xian Tong" seal.

Prints of Tang and Five Dynasties were found in northwest China and wuyue. Most of the works are concise and handsome, and the knife method is magical.

The development of printmaking has always been closely related to the book engraving industry. The centers in Song and Yuan Dynasties were Jian 'an in Fujian and Hangzhou in Zhejiang, and moved to Nanjing and Beijing in Ming Dynasty. But it is the rise of Huizhou printmaking that really makes the development of printmaking enter a new stage. Huizhou printmaking has been famous for its carving since the 0/5th century, with experts such as Lin, especially famous artists such as Huang and Wang.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Huang clan in Xin 'an carved more than 200 kinds of books, and there were 100 people who could draw pictures, which became a huge team. Representative works include "Self-cultivation Illustration" and "Biography of Ancient Lienv". When Huizhou prints are popular all over the world with elegant and exquisite styles, the illustrations of prints in Jinling (Nanjing), Wulin (Hangzhou) and Suzhou have also formed their own characteristics.

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Artistic characteristics of printmaking;

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.

Mr. Zheng Zhenduo once said: "Lizao painting has made great contributions to promoting culture", which is an appropriate description of the artistic status of printmaking.

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 imprint art.

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