Printmaking – Language of Mass Media and Cultural Identity – An Overview in Indian Context | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

We use language to express our emotions, attitudes, ideas, thoughts and opinions, to gain acceptance or approval, to complain, and to receive and convey information. It is a means to communicate along with an individual, society or the mass. An art form plays an important role to bridge the varied cultural gapes through the ages. Like other languages art communicates with the people or society using visual imagery or references, according the feelings behavior and emotional experiences expressed in the form of art, which makes the viewer to react or respond using their own understanding and interpret accordingly. Observation, pre-assumptions, experiences, findings, research are the major factors of an art language. Printmaking is one of the artistic medium through which an artist can reach to the people by his or her creative expressions using various surfaces to create marks, lines, scratch and image on to it and could take multiple impressions by which the individuality, society or the culture could be defined and recognized along with the time, space and subject. This paper is to focus and understand the skills and strategies of the cross-cultural communication, which may help to realize the process of artistic creation and using the unique way to speak or voice out creatively through the medium of printmaking.