Exploration And Extension

We, as an individual who lives in the contemporary world, how to annotate "contemporary"? The unique thing of this multiplication time, can bring enlightenment to each domain, the print is not exceptional. The print is a plant with history and tradition, the predecessor accumulated quite rich the experience and the technique in the print domain, these may let us stand steady on giant's shoulder, facing the present and future, and the time background which we located has given us inspiration. The multiplication involves the synthesis surely, the synthesis has certainly the material involvement, contemporary art emphasize taking tests and the exploration as power, taking development and creation as the objective, displays "all has the possibility" aesthetic standard, "the synthesis and the multiplication" became the mainstream tendency, the new material research in print happen to conformed to the contemporary art characteristic, the lithograph plates making, carrier and the way of demonstration, could manifest more possibilities which the material involvement brought, particularly the application of digital tools, the virtualization image had the infinite capacity and can develop toward the multi-dimension direction, all these provide a big turning point for print development. The synthesis tendency also caused the print crosswise development, the print therefore becomes one method, with tradition technique conformed by modern art idea, or unified by the new material and technique and the inherent language method and so on, the prints broke through the limitation as the creation method, let the print obtain a more exuberant vitality in a broader scope. The print development must be through to the traditional print extension, to make sure its combined process has validity and the endurance. The print's integrative trend is necessary, it can develop a new mentality, swallows any thought and idea which is more open and uncritical, and can stimulate the leap of each kind of invention, creation as well as imagination, dynamically realizes artistic development from the angle of print, thus enrich the contemporary art system.