The Analysis Of Jacques Hnizdovsky Woodcut About The Form And Style

One of the foremost woodcut artists in America, Jacques Hnizdovsky left us a legacy ofinventive and appealing images. His remarkable work has contributed to the resurgence ofprintmaking as a widely enjoyed and avidly collected art form. He was absorbed essencebetween the traditional art of the East and West. Also continue to improve his ownprintmaking performance technique, In his work you can’t see the new explorationprintmaking in American graphic arts, and the light and shadow appear on the screen, alsothe a chuck of black and white stark contrast. In all his works you can see there runs thread---a striking faithfulness to the literaltruth. And the preference for black and white lines. Through his continued hard work andattempt to form his own direction and style.As a native of the Ukraine, Hnizdovsky than emigrated to the United States, he makecontribute to the American printmaking is that injected the European culture into it. He firstworked in painting, sculputure, and ceramics, than returning to interest in printmaking, andformed his own literal style. In all his printmaking that runs an mistakable thread is about theloyal to the black and white line arranged. this article through the way interpret and analysisthe picture, to the viewers the world of black and white images. Explore these imagesthrough theknife flavor and wood flavor presented in the printmaking. Show the differencegrace and elegance of Hnizdovsky’ with the same contemporary painter.In this paper, we based on the Western theory of visual perception, we use the image ofscience, culture, art morphological methods, analyze the image characteristics and meaningof the Hnizdovsky’ printmaking. The paper research use mainstream image analysis andformal analysis, combined with art theory, cultural studies.“Form of style” is the center ofour subject, to reveal the uniqueness and complexity of his printmaking language. At thesame time avoid the readme the study of the painter becomes accumulation of materials, bycomparison the linguistic features between the Chinese and Western painting, and the special performance of printmaking. Prominent the painter prints in black-and-white printmakingshow the different ways and symbolic language, at last to form his own style.