What is printmaking? (3) Printmaking in life.

In daily life, as long as you pay a little attention, you will find that the phenomenon that conforms to the principle of printmaking (might as well be called printmaking phenomenon) is really everywhere. Handprints, ball prints, ruts and shoe prints on the road mentioned above are the most common printmaking phenomena. Seal is another common printmaking phenomenon related to everyone. Banks withdraw money, post offices receive parcels, and go out to work to open letters of introduction, all of which are indispensable. This chapter is actually a "disk", and the seal on the paper is a "seal". Especially those small prints, it should be said that they are the youngest brothers in prints-miniature prints smaller than book tickets (Figure 5, small prints).

Figure 5 Small font

Have you noticed: all kinds of eye-catching street signs, signs (Figure 6) and some poster advertisements in the streets and lanes and on both sides of the road? Indoor furnishings-thermos bottles, enamel pots and pans with unique patterns on the surface; Pleasing patterns on all kinds of clothes, sheets and curtains; Elegant decorative patterns on the ground and walls are all sprayed, brushed or printed according to the principle of printing (Figure 7). Isn't the reputation printing, typing and modern copying for office use also common examples of this phenomenon? In foreign countries, some people regard photography as a "print" on the grounds that it also has a negative (also called a bottom plate), which seems to conform to the principle of print. Here, I dare not jump to conclusions. Photography is photography after all, and it has its own vast world. Why do you have to squeeze into the not-so-rich field of printmaking? But one thing is certain, the combination of photography with screen printing, lithograph and copperplate has long been adopted by printmakers and widely recognized by the international printmaking community. This may be the new development and development of printmaking in the era of science and technology. There are many examples of printmaking in life, but the most common and closely related printmaking phenomenon is the mass media-newspapers, magazines, books and pictures. Broadly speaking, prints are published paintings, and all products (including pictorial and pictures) of a printing house can be regarded as "prints". The reason is very simple, because they all conform to the principle of printmaking and are made according to certain printmaking procedures. In ancient society, printmaking actually refers to all published works of art. At the end of last century, people regarded color lithographs as color pictures (printed matter). Only when future prints are regarded as original works of art and sold in the market, people begin to notice the difference between original prints and reproductions (that is, printed matter).

Figure 6 Road signs (template spraying)

Fig. 7 Enamel spraying (perforated plate)