Recently, the "China Silk Screen Printmaking 40 Annual Exhibition" jointly hosted by the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the Printmaking Art Committee of the China Artists Association, and the Heilongjiang Provincial Calligraphy and Painting Academy (Heilongjiang Provincial Art Museum), and jointly organized by the Heilongjiang (International) Printmaking Museum and the Heilongjiang Provincial Printmaking Academy, opened at the Heilongjiang (International) Printmaking Museum. Lin Mao, Dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, serves as the General Advisor for the exhibition, while Kong Liang, Director and Professor of the Printmaking Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Deputy Director and Secretary General of the Printmaking Art Committee of the China Artists Association, serves as the overall planner for the exhibition.
This exhibition showcases the creative achievements of silk screen printing across the country over the past 40 years, with more than 200 pieces of silk screen printing works presented in chronological order. At the exhibition site, through 5 sets of videos, oral interviews with eyewitnesses and witnesses of the development of Chinese silk screen printing, as well as animated demonstrations of the history of silk screen printing development, were played in a rolling manner. For the first time, important historical documents from the 40 year development of silk screen printing were publicly exhibited, providing a three-dimensional overview of the overall development of Chinese silk screen printing over the past 40 years.
As an emerging type of printmaking introduced in the early stages of reform and opening up, the development trajectory of Chinese silk screen printmaking is closely related to China's modernization process. In 1979, the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts began the construction of the silk screen printing major under the advocacy and persona
