Since its establishment in the 1950s, the printmaking department of the Central Academy of fine arts has formed a Chinese printmaking education system with its own characteristics through the joint efforts of several generations and the development of a relatively single discipline in the past. The nearly 70 years of teaching exploration and experience accumulation of the printmaking department has laid a solid foundation for the future development of the printmaking department

the exhibition is divided into six sections based on the six studios of the printmaking department, focusing on the excellent courses and student works of the studios of the printmaking department. Based on Chinese traditional watermark printmaking, Studio 1 discusses how to separate watermark printmaking from the concept of technical version in a narrow sense, and takes the image composition course as an excellent representative course to stimulate students' interest in the use of new technology and the exploration of printmaking language expression in the future; The teaching direction of the second studio is to study and practice the multi-dimensional media and materials of Modern Printmaking and the depth of artistic expression based on the study of the traditional materials, techniques and ontology language of the existing concave, convex, flat and hole printmaking, and take the basis of printmaking creation and the spatial expansion of Printmaking concept as the excellent courses of the studio, Further expand the language material expression space of Printmaking Teaching and printmaking creation; The teaching direction of the third studio is based on the development law of western traditional printmaking research and art history, takes woodblock and copper plate as the main practical means, takes "32 engravings" as the excellent course of the studio, and enables students to master solid printmaking language and excellent artistic expression through a complete teaching system;