In order to deepen the study and implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and Xi Jinping's cultural thoughts, enhance the academic accumulation of printmaking creation and research in the new era, explore more excellent printmaking works and talents, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of excellent traditional Chinese culture, on the afternoon of December 19th, sponsored by the China Artists Association and the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Art Center, the China Artists Association Printmaking Art Committee The 25th National Printmaking Exhibition, hosted by the Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, opened at the museum

This exhibition comprehensively and vividly showcases the creative situation of the national printmaking industry in recent years, highlighting the following three characteristics: firstly, the works have a wide coverage of themes and strong narrative in the visuals, which not only reflect the industrial production scenes of socialist modernization construction, but also show the gratifying scene of various high-tech industries being widely applied, The diverse visual narrative techniques have brought impressive and excellent works to this exhibition; The second is to focus on the contemporary transformation of the aesthetic spirit of traditional printmaking. The watermark printmaking works exhibited this year, although some have a small print count, have a large number of sets, reflecting the author's dedicated attitude of carefully creating high-quality works, as well as the experimental spirit of contemporary watermark printmaking to break through traditional patterns and expand the expressive space of print texture; Thirdly, the formal language expression of different printmaking varieties has significantly improved. Woodblock prints use flexible knife techniques to organize and express revolu