German Expressionist Prints In The Early20th Century, With China Emerging Woodcut

German Expressionism is the beginning of the20th century world history of art isan important school of art, especially German Expressionist prints, played a role inpromoting not only for the rehabilitation and development of printmaking in the world,but also had a significant impact on the world of modern art. Emerging woodcutmovement began in the1930s.1931Lu Xun woodcut workshop held in Shanghai,marking the beginning of the "creative prints", and open a new one of modernChinese art history. To the early20th century German Expressionist prints andemerging woodcut "A Comparison Study, were analyzed and compared theperformance of the content, form and style of the two existing representative works,combined with the relevant historical data, discussed, trying to comboth relationship.The text of this paper part of the works of the early20th century GermanExpressionist Prints and emerging woodcut "image analysis.(A) of the early20thcentury German Expressionism and China "emerging woodcut" basic concepts andthe social and historical background. The expressionism in the early20th century,theoretical support can not be separated the Lipu Si, and Wolin Zhe et al. It requires toget rid of the external objective appearance, a direct manifestation of inner emotions,intuition. This period in Germany, the interests of the proletariat and the capitalistsbecome increasingly acute contradictions between imperialism in order to compete forcolonies led to the outbreak of World War. Social movements and the war to makepeople’s lives shrouded in an atmosphere of anxiety, fear and uncertainty. After1930,in the Revolutionary War, sharp social contradictions, intense class struggle, a longwar to make the lives of people in dire straits. China’s emerging woodcut printmakingbecause of its advocacy concerned about the social reality and the bottom of people’slives, has a qualitatively different wood carvings and ancient copy, so whichevername.(B) works theme. Each selected five artists to analyze the themes of theirworks. The main theme of the German Expressionist prints to the mood of the performance figures, living conditions and social unrest brought to the publicsuffering. The theme of the "emerging woodcut works, people, and tragic real lifeperformance of domestic revolutionary struggle and the context of the war.(C)compare the similarities and differences of works of art style. Analyze and comparethe composition of both works, printmaking language as well as showing the artisticfeatures.The concluding section of this article: comparative analysis of the artists and theirwork on two aspects of the early20th century German Expressionist prints emergingwoodcut "summary of both the association and the similarities and differences. Interms of their social and historical background, the nature of the two countries isdifferent, but are suffering the misery of war. From the terms of the subject matter ofthe work, similarities that are opposed to the performance of the aestheticism of thesubject matter, mostly drawn from the lower life of the suffering public, have showndepressed, anxious, the theme of suffering. The difference is that the GermanExpressionist prints have a sense of humor "emerging woodcut works is even moresuppressed. In terms of artistic style, the composition of the German Expressionistprints and more unstable and volatile elements, characters, and the overall picture ofthe composition consistent. Sense of power and a clear point in the form of language.,And traditional painting different point of view described in the narrative point ofview. On the language features in the prints, the knife is concise and powerful,black-and-white relations as a whole and clear. A large number of decorative andsymbolic elements, deformation, and strengthen the performance of language, themore distinctive themes. The works of emerging woodcut style tends to realism, isbasically a reproduction of real life scenes, knife use clutter, cumbersome and notmature enough. Picture element, not too subjective refined. Youth engraving of theworkers and peasants living understanding and observation of life is not deep enough,are not sufficiently accurate understanding of the proportion of the human bodystructure, often a problem in shape, showing the tendency ofconceptualization.Emerging woodcut is not a school of painting, is a special artisticphenomenon of a particular historical period, this period the works of naive andimmature, but it is directly borrowed from the German Expressionist printmaking atthe same time, successfully promoted the transformation of Chinese art plastic artsbreak through the "Art for art to become" the public art, the art of "weapons".