版画系

中央美术学院版画系在历史上有李桦、古元、王琦、彦涵、黄永玉等教授任教。他们既是经验丰富的美术教育家，同时又是具有广泛影响的艺术家，他们具有示范意义的创作奠定了版画系教学的坚实基础，使版画系始终保持着较高的学术水准，在全国起着相当的倡导性作用。
版画系几代教师“薪火相传”，一直承传着认真治学和真诚洽艺的精神，在教学和创作上都充满了活力。版画系现有教师16名，其中教授、副教授共8名。版画系首任系主任是李桦教授，80年代中期以后至90年代中期，伍必端、宋源文、谭权书、广军教授曾先后担任版画系主任。现任版画系主任吴长江教授，副主任苏新平副教授，周吉荣副教授。
版画系设有木版、铜版、石版、丝网版画、书籍艺术工作室，90年代成立了摄影、传统版画工作室和研究生教学组，并正在筹建版画材料与新技术工作室，版画专业教学要求学生具备坚实的造型能力，掌握凸版、凹版、平版、孔版各版种的制作原理和方法，具备一专多能的专业素质和艺术功力。除版画专业教学外还设有构成、摄影、电脑制作、版画史、版画纸张材料等课程或讲座，使学生熟悉各种艺术表现语言，并重视在学习民族文化和继承版画艺术优秀传统的基础上吸收现代设计意识与艺术观念，鼓励学生深入生活，关注社会、表现时代精神。

The Printmaking Department

In its history, the Printmaking Department of CAFA had famous professors of Li Hua, Gu Yuan, Wang Qi, Yan Han and Huang Yongyu as teachers,who were experienced art educators with wide influences. Their creation, which is to demonstrate significance, laid a solid foundation for the teach-ing at the Printmaking Department, with which this Department has always maintained a high academic level and played a leading role in China.
The first Director of the Printmaking Department is Prof. Li Hua. From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Prof Wu Biduan song Yuanwen, Tan Quanshu and Guangju were directors consecutively. The current Director is Prof Wu Changjiang, and the two Deputies are Associate Prof Su Xinping and Zhou Jirong.
Since its setup, a large group of artists dedicated to printmaking education, old, middle-aged and young, have gathered in the Printmaking Department. They are Li Hua, Gu Yuan, Wang Qi, Yan Han and Huang Yongyu, Zhou Lingzhao, Wu Biduan, Chen Xiaonan Xia Tongguang. lin Shangyi,Pang Tao, Zhan Jianjun, Shao jinkun, Yang Xianrang, Hong Bo, Li Hongren, Sun Cixi, Liang Dong, Luo Erchun, Zhang Dashen, Song Yuanwen, Tan Quanshu, Yang Li, Zhang Peiyi, Zhang Zuoming, Zhou jianfu, Wei Zuyin, Weng Naiqiang, Cuang jun, Wang Weixin, Chen jinrong, Chen Wenji, Xu Bing, Zhang Guilin, Wu Changjiang, Gao Rongsheng, Zhang jun, Shi jihong, Ma Gang, Tan Ping, Chen Qiang, Wen Guozhang, Su Xinping, Wang Huaxiang, Zhou jirong, Liu Liping, Yu Chen, Li Fan, Zhang Ye, Li Xiaolin, Kang liangfei and others.
The spirit of pursuing study seriously and pursuing art sincereiy has been passed down from one generation to another. The teaching and creation of the department is fuli of vitality. Currently the department has a faculty of 16, of whom 8 are Professors and associate Professors.
The Printmaking studios are of woodcut, etching, lithography, silkscreen, photography, tradi-tional print-making and of a graduate teaching group, the latter three were set up in the 1990s.Preparation is under way to set up a printmaking materiais and new technique studio. At present, the teaching for undergraduate, graduate and internationai students is being consistently developed and standardized. In the same time, courses for graduate-equal credentiais, teaching assistant advanced study, and senior advanced study are aiso availabie in the Printmaking Oepartment.
In specialty teaching of the Printmaking Oepartment, students receive technique and creation instructions, with which they acquire knowiedge on the making principie and method of relief printing,intaglio, surface printing and stencil, and possess specialty techniques and artistic skills in printmaking and other fields. Other courses also include composition, photography,computer creation, history of printmaking and printmaking paper materials, with which students get familiar with the characteristics of artistic languages. ''Social Practice ''and ''Graduation Creation'' are the core subjects in the Printmaking Department.
The Printmaking Department emphasizes that students digest modern design ideas and artistic views on the basis of Iearning the national cuiture and inheriting the traditions of printmaking art, encourages the students to go deep into life and concern about the society, and to represent the spirit of the contemporary time. The department stimulates the original spirit of the students, who are expected to have great adaptability after graduation and make contributions to the deveiopment of the country.