作为版画艺术家,我想向中国朋友谈谈英国现代版画的发展情况。 英国版画有悠久的历史,但直到最近的25年,才有了较大的发展,并被广大观众所了解。这虽然有多方面的原因,但最重要的也许是受到了从50年代后期到60年代后期的英美波普艺术的影响。这段时间,艺术家们开始用日常出现在广告、电视、电影和连环漫画中的人物形象作为他们作品的主题。丝网版画,尤其是照相丝网版画随即让位于有广泛影响的艺术家的作品,如英国的理查德·汉弥尔顿和美国的安迪·沃霍尔。汉弥尔顿是流行艺术的先驱,创造了“波普艺术”这一术语;而沃霍尔则以其巨大的多种形象的绘画和版画,比任何艺术家更能体现波普艺术。 As a print artist, I would like to talk to Chinese friends about the development of modern British prints. British prints have a long history, but it has not been more developed until the recent 25 years and is widely understood by the general public. Although there are many reasons for this, perhaps the most important thing is perhaps the influence of Anglo-American pop art from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. During this time, artists began to use their daily appearing characters in advertisements, television, movies and comic strips as the theme of their work. Silkscreen prints, especially photographic silkscreen prints, will then give way to works by widely influential artists such as Richard Hamilton in the United Kingdom and Andy Warhol in the United States. Hamilton was a pioneer in pop art and created the term pop art; while Warhol, with its immense variety of pictorial and printmaking, embodied pop art better than any artist.