The theme of the exhibition is “Exploration ? Innovation—Nationalization and Regionalism of Plastic Art in Modern Society”. Its tenet is advocating the inheritance and innovation of Chinese traditional art, presenting plastic art works complying with time and reality, training and recommending new person, promoting social harmonious development. Its purpose is to, through the practice and theory research of plastic art, seek ways to catch contemporary plastic art academic idea, interpret realistic questions existing in contemporary plastic art creation study, and aggressively explore, continue to put up new innovative works.

This exhibition will exhibit 5 pieces of newcomer excellent works, 10 pieces of newcomer fine works, 30 pieces of newcomer nominated works, 129 pieces of works that get in the final, which are altogether 174 pieces. The exhibited works come from all the social fields, including teachers and students in art major, professional painters. All those works not only have rich subjects but also contains multiple art forms such as Chinese painting, oil painting, engraving, sculpture, watercolor, lacquer painting and design.