The Application Of Realism In Contemporary Woodcuts

Realism,English is "realism." The German poet Schiller first used the term "realism" in aesthetic terms in his letter to Goethe in April 1789.During the Italian Renaissance in the 16 th century,Caravaggio first created the people of the bottom of society,the homeless people and the peasants.In his works,he can clearly feel the realist factors with humanistic atmosphere;the Dutch School of the 17 th century used real life as the main material of artistic creation.Realism became a social trend in France in the nineteenth century,and painter Courbet first advocated realism in the field of oil painting.Later,he organized an exhibition of works called “Realism” and elaborated his own artistic ideas of realism.Shao Dazhen published an article on "Realistic Spirit and Modern Art" in the 11 th issue of "Arts" in 1980.He wrote: Realism is a creative technique and a means of expression that reflects real life and uses a vivid artistic image.Give people a spiritual encouragement.The invention of engraving promoted the development of printmaking and upgraded the original print form from the original copy form to the mature art form.As the birthplace of black and white woodcuts,China has a long history of printmaking and provides rich literature and materials for contemporary prints.The woodcut of Chinese creation originated from the new woodcut movement advocated by Mr.Lu Xun,and also opened a new chapter in the creation of Chinese printmaking.With the rapid development of economy and culture,the artistic language of black and white woodcuts has also undergone great changes.It has begun to focus on the exploration and research of the black and white woodcut ontology art language,enriching the artistic language and expressive power of black and white woodcuts.In the early days of liberation,Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Symposium on Literature and Art" during the Yan'an period was the theoretical guidance,and put forward the guidelines for "Hundred Flowers Blossom,One Hundred Schools of Contention".A new leap in realism printmaking,such as Li Huanmin's "First Step" Golden Road and other works.Although the works of this period have greatly improved in technique and formal language compared with the previous works.However,the shortcoming of the works of this period is that they emphasize politicality too much.The real development of Chinese prints began in the reform and opening up in 1978.From the reform and opening up to the present,Chinese realist prints have ushered in a new historical period.Realistic prints in the new era focus on personal experiences,showing social independence and cultural criticism.The reform and opening up since1978 has exerted a subtle influence on the transformation of creative ideas.The form and style of realism prints have also changed.Create some prints with regional characteristics,cultural characteristics and a strong sense of life on the subject.For example,Wu Changjiang's Tibetan Prints and Wang Huaxiang's Guizhou People.During this period,the printmaking groups in Sichuan,Yunnan,and Northeast were the most representative.With the development of reform and opening up,China's economy has achieved leap-forward development.Under the influence of urbanization,the print artists began to express urban life and began to pay attention to personal experiences,showing social independence and cultural criticism.How to create prints that are close to Chinese society and have China's own characteristics has become a problem faced by Chinese local realism prints.Chinese contemporary realism prints express the artist's perception,state and social consciousness of self-survival with unique artistic language and expression techniques.Chinese contemporary realistic prints express the inner truth of things,depicting people with social attributes,and expressing their true social relationships according to social reality,based on local reality.Rethinking the relationship between life and art,the exploration of the artistic language of printmaking is combined with the culture of contemporary China,and the creation of prints should return to real life.Chinese contemporary realistic prints are prints created by artists for the free expression of Chinese society and culture.Art,and thinking and perception of the Chinese real society.Realism creation has become an expression of our concern for real life,facing the real world and self,and the expression of real life has become the trait of contemporary realism prints.For example,Peng Wei's work "The Year of the Literary",Fu Bin's work "The Time and the Place" series.Influenced by contemporary art,contemporary realism prints express the critique of materialization of their postmodern society,and the image of expression has profound implication.Contemporary realism is a relatively broad concept category.It inherits and develops the core and characteristics of realism.Its artistic core is to pay attention to the survival needs of the real society,emphasizing the artist's attention to reality,and finding the connection with contemporary in daily narrative.