Chapter 21 Preface to "Soviet Print Collection"

——For most of the first half, see the above "Notes on the Soviet Printmaking Exhibition", and delete the "Additional Notes".Then I will continue with the following: the article on the right was written by me and published in Shenbao when the Soviet Printmaking Exhibition was held in Shanghai in February this year.This exhibition has brought a lot of benefits to China; I think there will probably be many people who have turned from fantasy to down-to-earth realism.Liangyou Book Company wanted to print a collection of paintings, and I was very happy to hear that, so when Mr. Zhao Jiabi [2] wanted me to participate in the selection and write the preface, I agreed without hesitation: This is what I want to do, and I should made.

Participating in the selection of paintings, especially prints, I fulfilled my promise, but later I fell ill and couldn’t do anything. Neither does strength.It is impossible to stop printing and wait for me, so I have to still take the old text and print it in the front, just to cover my responsibility.However, I am confident that what I said in it can also be used as a reference. I ask readers to forgive me for being ill at this time and not being able to write something new. In the past month, I have had a fever every day, and sometimes I remembered prints during the fever.I think none of these authors are chic, elegant, clever, or exquisite.All of them are like the incarnation of the vast black soil, and sometimes they seem cumbersome. Since the October Revolution, the masters of the mountain have endured hunger and cold, and with a magnifying glass and a few knives, they have unremittingly developed the art of this department. .Although it has been copied this time, the outline is still there. We can see which one is not solid, not sincere, or has the intention of being tricky and obedient?

I hope that the publication of this collection will have a good influence on Chinese readers, not only to show the achievements of Soviet art. On June 23, 1936, Lu Xun stated, Xu Guangping [3] recorded. CC [1] This article was originally printed in "Soviet Print Collection". "Soviet Print Collection", edited by Zhao Jiabi, published by Shanghai Liangyou Book Printing Company in July 1936. [2] Zhao Jiabi, born in Songjiang, Jiangsu (now part of Shanghai), is a writer and publisher.At that time, he was the editor of Liangyou Book Printing Company. [3] Xu Guangping (1898-1968), pen name Jing Song, was born in Panyu, Guangdong, wife of Lu Xun.

He is the author of "Remembrance of Comfort", "Life About Lu Xun" and so on.