Screen Printing Overview (below)

Second, the landing and rooting of screen printing in China

China's silkscreen prints appeared under the cultural background of reform and opening up in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At the time, Mr. Li Hua, the head of the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, proposed the creation of screen-printing professions and then spread to other brothers and universities. Once the students of the screen-printing school moved to the society, a new screen-printing was created in China. The kind of painting. Mr. Guang Jun and Mr. Zhang Guilin of the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts can be said to be the two earliest practitioners in this neighborhood. They have made unremitting efforts in the development of the orientation of Chinese silk screen prints. At the same time, a large number of screen-printing talents have also been cultivated for the society. Many of them have become active painters in the print-making community, and many of them have spread their salary in educational posts.

Guangjun "Flowers"

Zhang Guilin's "Three Doors"
2000 69×48cm

The appearance and development of silk screen prints in China has made Chinese traditional print language richer and more modern aesthetic features. For example, in terms of the size of the work, it can achieve striking visual effects beyond the size of other types of prints; it can use color screen printing technology to achieve the best performance and make the charm of color possible. Fully demonstrated; it provides space for artists to express themselves more freely in the form and structure, so that the "painting" of the print language can be fully reflected. With the help of scientific printing technology, the screen-printing works quickly become rich and varied. Corresponding to the trend of continuous expansion of image propagation and visual culture under modern social conditions, it has entered all levels of social aesthetics.

The "First China Silk Screen Printing Exhibition", jointly organized by the Chinese Artists Association's Committee of Printed Artists and China Screen Printing and Imaging Association, is a starting point with a century of significance. With the gradual improvement of the screen-printing system and the growing and growing ranks of screen-printing teams, silk-screen prints with Chinese characteristics will surely enter the world in the near future.