On Contemporary Printmaking Diversified Development Trend

As a major form of painting, printmaking has its unique aesthetic value and cultural connotations. What makes printmaking directly and indirectly different from other forms of paintings is that the implication and replicable and special printings. All of these together are presented by its materials. For such a long time, domestic printmakers focus on researching the technology and professional creation of one version of printmaking, rather than researching the attempt of intersection, inosculation of different types of printmaking, paintings, engraving and other kinds of arts. Furthermore, technical constraints limited the printmaking develops into the visual and innovative effects in the contemporary development.Since the reform and opening, with the impetus of world-wide globalization and the increasing communication of international cultural exchange, printmakers get new thought of creation and artistic concepts. Under the improvement of authoring environment, the popularization of new materials and the improvement of new printing technology, all of these promote the upgrading and development of printmaking in our country, particularly, in the aspect of helping the emergence and evolution of new species and materials, the deploitation and perfection of manufacture craft. The printmaking- workers in our country are actively seeking new forms of printmaking in the process of their creation. The integrative tendency of printmaking is getting more and more obvious, and at the same time its advantages is gradually evident.The researching and exploration of printmaking's comprehensive form need to an open and inclusive environment. The aim of integration is to expand the breadth and depth of printmaking, so that the art infectivity of printmaking can be improved and keep up with the pace of social progress and development. Printmaking developing into comprehensive form not only eliminates the boundaries between species and printmaking, but also eliminates the boundaries between other art forms, and moreover it breaks the limitations of traditional conceptions and riches the contemporary artistic expression, which reflects the contemporary tendency of diversification ,and makes a great preparation for the emergency of new ideas and conceptions in the future. A major type of art with unique characteristics, obtains prolongation and sublimation.