按照今天的定义,版画是一种间接性和复数性的艺术,凸、凹、平、孔四个主要版种,都需要通过特定的媒材转印而得。不过,最初的“版画”却不是我们现在常用的这个名词,甚至不算一门专业的画种,而是面向广泛受众群的纸质宣传品。可以说,版画先天即具有实用性和大众性的特质,只是后来随着刻印主体、市场、社会文化等方面的变化,而逐渐被赋予了独立创作的性质,并且由于转印媒介的物质特性,而呈现出自有的审美价值以及形态、概念拓展的更大可能。在相当长的时期内,木刻是最主要的版画形式,它们一般附着于书籍文本,成为传播思想和信息的主要载体。目前 According to today’s definition, print is an indirect and pluralistic art, convex, concave, flat, hole four major editions, need to be transferred through a specific media derived. However, the original “print ” is not the term we commonly used, or even a professional painting, but for a wide range of publicity paper products. It can be said that the print inherently has the characteristics of practicality and mass, but later gradually with the changes of the main body, the market, social culture and other changes, and was gradually given the nature of independent creation, and because of the material properties of the transfer medium, While showing its own aesthetic value and shape, the concept of greater possibilities. For a long period of time, woodcuts were the most important forms of printmaking, and they were generally attached to the texts of books as the main vehicle for dissemination of ideas and information. Currently