罗映球是中国新兴版画运动的老一辈版画家,从上个世纪30年代中叶起,就开始木刻实践,直到2006年初他临终前才放下刻刀,整个版画艺术活动耐间长达70年。他从事木刻时间持续之久,年岁之高,作品之多,在中国新兴版画史上极为罕见。他的作品广泛而细致地表现粤东农村的生活情景,有着浓郁的乡土气息和田园诗意,具有 Luo Yingqiu, an elder-generation printmaker in China’s emerging printmaking movement, started his woodcut practice from the mid-30s of the last century. It was not until the end of 2006 that he put down the graver before the death of his father. The entire printmaking art activity lasted for 70 years. He is engaged in woodcut lasted for a long time, high age, many works, in the history of China’s emerging prints is extremely rare. His works show the life scenes of rural areas of eastern Guangdong extensively and meticulously, with rich local flavor and pastoral poetic features, with