판화란 무엇인가?

Abstract

This study is a straightforward question about what a print is. Many people have an incorrect conception of printmaking, considering it as something alienated from the creative work in relationships with painting. In other words, a print is misunderstood as a simple copy produced in monochrome. However, it is crucial to realize that a print embraces matters beyond the nature of paintings depicted by such activities as putting dots, drawing lines, creating planes and skilled brushstrokes. It is also a philosophical term relevant to the fundamental reasoning of existence. A print incorporates the process of creating images and includes the mechanism of communicating and combining such visual-perceptual creations. In particular, if the prospect of an artist’s thought during the process of creation is applied to the moment of printmaking, a print is a word clearly indicating the act of drawing. In order to explain this, the process of expression is presented in the introduction of Chapter I. In Chapter II, the process of image trace, a print is described as the output of the stance opposite to objects from which an idea comes into existence and explained as facing each other between both sides. At first, this study presents a mirror device as an example to deal with the medium of print. Secondly, it explains the circumstances where printmaking is involved with modern art as a method, describing collages and objects. In Chapter III, the creative role of duplicated print images to make an index structure is emphasized in the context of art history. This study also mentions the post-modernism paintings’ emphasis on perception through focusing on objects beyond human body. Chapter IV focuses on describing prints of impossible possibility in the ways dealing with post modernism. What I suggest is that printmaking is a medium-specific art form contributing to paintings based on expressivity. Chapter V is the conclusion, in which I present a creative perspective that prints will play a role of a new medium of painting in the 21st century opening a new realm of painting beyond the post-modern period. The term of a print refers to a special catalytic painting that embraces all types of art genres. Given that fine arts does not simply mean the characteristics of modernity where the content is decided by only expressed form, the entire creative processes sprout from the seed of idea and people desire the creative period after the post modernism where individual stances co-exist at the same time, printmaking methods will impart more richness to paintings. Furthermore, the absolute idea implicit in the act of drawing and the entire expressions recorded by body can be substituted by the term of print if it is considered that the contemporary fine arts puts more emphasis on the coexistence of thought and expression.