Brief Discussion On Zhelimu Printmaking

Zhelimu printmaking made a remarkable achievement during the last century. Especially during the 80th of 20 century, Zhelimu printmaking held some exhibitions in Beijing and it received extensive praise from many experts on printmaking and audience by it's fresh content and language, expressing the harmonious beauty of human and nature. The district character is kept authentically. The works had the audience feel the life of grasslands people and caused a sensation at that time. Today art is diversifying and there are a lot of article forms, styles and schools .The views expressing styles and skills of printmaking are changed a lot .In such cultural background, Zhelimu printmaking is lack of cognition to the modern printmaking development. There is a gap on expressing cultural character and the watchword of the time between Zhelimu and modern printmaking because of it's old creating view, single creating method, narrow creating material. Zhelimu printmaking must find a proper developing way and direction and try to reduce the distance so that it can catch up with the modern printmaking. The experts on Zhelimu printmaking must change their creating idea. They must absorb the rich nutrition from traditional cultural art; understand the developing situation of modern printmaking; pay close attention to real society and humane careness; combine the traditional culture and modern ideas organically; explore and practise in variety printmaking; develop and create continuously to make it show it's distinct trait and modern consciousness. It can learn new skills , languages and forms , rich it's expressing ways from modem printmaking so it can make it's works hare a breakthrough. Zhelimu printmaking not only possess the national and time character but also the culture and spirit connotation , so that it can play an important park in Chinese modern printmaking.