From Skills To Taoism:A Brief Analysis Of The Relation Between Wood Printing Skills And Artistic Expressions

People of different professions express their thoughts and feelings in different ways.Poets like to express their thoughts and feelings by writing poems.Calligraphers like to express their ideology by writing.Painters like to use their brushes and knives to express their spiritual images.The creative process of art is the activity of transforming the spiritual world of human beings into the material state,and woodcut art is the simplest form of recording in human artistic activities.This is because the materials and techniques of woodcut are the most direct carriers of the spiritual expression of woodcut artists.It records the creative process from manuscript to printmaking to painting,and truly reproduces the creation of woodcut artists from technique to Tao.Course,therefore,is an important way for printmakers to express their thoughts and feelings.In addition,woodcut also has an artistic characteristic that paper-based freehand painting can not achieve,that is,the indirectness of woodcut is reflected in the re-creation of the printmaker's drawings,also known as "secondary creation".