Lu Xun collected more than 2 100 original foreign prints in his life, involving more than 200 printmakers from 16 countries, and was praised as "the first person to collect prints in China".
The rise of printmaking in China is a new art form with independent appreciation value under the influence of the May 4th New Culture Movement, and Lu Xun is the most successful person in introducing and popularizing this art form. Many famous modern printmakers who have been taught by him think: "Lu Xun, like the mother of China's new woodcut, has nurtured kindness that we can never forget."
Mr. Lu Xun is a personage without party affiliation, but he has made great contributions to the victory of China's * * * production party. He is also known as "the first person in China's new literature". Chairman Mao was originally named after Lu Xun because he wanted to give Lu Yi a soul through this spirit of Mr. Lu Xun and hoped that Lu Yi could lead the new art in China, so he was named Lu Xun Art Institute, which is now Lu Xun Art Institute.
The relationship between Lu Xun and fine arts can be traced back to 19 12. At the age of 32, Lu Xun gave a speech entitled "Introduction to Fine Arts" at a summer lecture in Beijing. The relationship between Lu Xun and printmaking began at 1929. This year, Lu Xun successively edited and published Selected Works of Modern Woodcuts and Art Gardens for China, and later edited and published such picture books as Civil Engraving of Shimin, Jade Collection, Selected Works of Engraving at the Beginning of the New Year and Lehui, which made important contributions to the popularization of western printmaking ... Jiang Feng, a progressive student who was expelled from Hangzhou National Art College and a member of the "Shanghai 18th Art Society Research Association", was "eye-opening and deeply impressed. From then on, I made up my mind to give up oil painting and switch to woodcut. Since then, in 1930, Shanghai 18th Art Society, Wild Painting Society, MK Woodcarving Society, Wild Ear Woodcarving Society, Chundi Academy of Fine Arts, Unnamed Woodcarving Society and Woodcarving Society have been established successively in Shanghai, Modern Painting Society in Guangzhou and Pingping in Beiping. In an extraordinary period, painters in these woodcut groups used woodcuts to express their political opinions, reflect people's sufferings, expose the darkness of society, give full play to the unique social functions of art, and a large number of outstanding works emerged that not only inspired people, but also gave people artistic enjoyment. Among them are Chen Tiegeng's Illustrating Mother and Child and the Restoration of the French Open, Wounded Head, Huang Xinbo's Push, Li Hua's Roaring China, Chen Yanqiao's Struggle, Jiang Feng's Dock Worker, Li Qun's Picking Leaves, Liu Lun's Riverside and Ye Fu's Struggle.