On The Regional Characteristics Of Horqin's Printmaking

As the research object,Kerqin prints is a type of printmaking genre formed in Kerqin region of Inner Mongolia.It is not only an important part of Chinese ethnic minority engraving art,but also an important cultural and artistic representation of unique ethnic customs and folk culture in Kerqin region.On the other hand,Kerqin prints is developed with Zhelimu prints after 1999,when league,the administrative division of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was transformed to city corresponding to its prefecture.With the distinctive artistic features,Kerqin prints has earned a well-known reputation as glory of Kerqin grassland in the Chinese art circle due to its powerful,grand,elegant and simple features.Hence,materials of Kerqin prints are mainly selected from representative samples within Tongliao city,including Kerqin District,Naiman Banner,Jarud Banner and other regions.What’s more,it is precisely because of its materials stemming from production and livelihood of the Mongolian people that Kerqin prints sents out a strong regional,ethnic,and artistic breath.Through the research,Introduction,the first chapter of this thesis,mainly describes reasons for the choice of topic,research status,and main contents of this thesis,etc.While in Chapter Two,this thesis focuses on the rising background of Kerqin prints,the general situation of its development,and also the historical development of Kerqin is teased out.In addition,Chapter Three tells about the artistic style,regional and ethnic characteristics of Kerqin prints,which facilitates the artist’s achievements in unique aesthetic and artistic value.Furthermore,in the fourth part of this thesis,different genres,including Academic engraving,Zhanjiang engraving,Beidahuang engraving,and Yunnan engraving are contrasted with Kerqin prints respectively.On this basis,taking prints by several representative Kerqin artists as the starting point,this thesis makes an in-depth study on their subject contents so as to highlight artistic features,aesthetic value,and representation of regional features.Last but not least,the final chapter explores the current situation and the present problem it faces in the development of Kerqin modern prints.The results show that Kerqin prints has formed its own regional style in the process of development for decades,and artists are making full use of various creative techniques to promote the development of Kerqin prints as well.Therefore,Kerqin prints has a more distinctive regional characteristic compared with other art genres.In the future development,based on its own regional culture characteristics,and combined with the variety of creative techniques of modern and contemporary printmaking,Kerqin prints can be used to promote the development and progress of regional creation comprehensively.