The Research On The Forms Of Visualization Of Chinese Contemporary Printmaking

With the development of economic globalization, cultures in the world have the tendency of great convergence and diversification.Firstly, the emergence of a variety of ideas:various kinds of modern art creation concepts in China are affected by the popular culture of post-modernism and the art is deconstructed in form. Therefore, the art comes into the exploratory period of concept which is far from the concept of art itself. A case in point is the application of imagination in Printmaking. At the same time, the solid material and technical supports in the study of imagination are provided by the developed digital imaging technology, network technology, digital information technology and so on, which are the solid material and scientific technologies. On the basis of sufficient culture and material, this kind of imagination, the new tendency, has already become the common technique adopted by modern painters in China, which means imagination will be the main creation way of Printmaking in the future.This thesis analyses and summarizes the visual and cultural characteristics of imagination in Printmaking. Then the author makes a comparison between the traditional Printmaking and modern imagination in China and analyses them carefully. The value and significance of imagination are mainly discussed from the perspective of sociology and human spirit and this paper tries to highlight the cultural and theoretical value of imagination.There are six parts in this paper. The first part is the introduction in which the significance of the research and related literary review are elaborated. In the second part, the current studies on Printmaking are analyses from the aspects of development process, cultural contexts, times, aesthetic orientation and the development of imagination technology. The third part is the analysis of modern Printmaking imagination in China. The manifestation modes are discussed in part four including the re-creation of photography, history, public images, games, cartoon,3D video images and so on. In part five, the author summarizes the characteristics of modern Printmaking imagination. Part six is the conclusion in which techniques of expression are evaluated and looked forward.