Extract from Grapheion special issue 2002, collection of papers from the conference of the 3rd International Triennial of Graphic Arts Prague 2001

The present state of graphic arts it is characterised by extreme diversity. The important international graphic arts reviews show the simultaneous presence of all the traditional modes of execution, as well as new technological processes based on digital imaging and computer printing.

Even with the obvious presence of individual works that include the implementation of the new digital technology, either characterised by pure visual expression or reflecting ideas of their multimedia origin, it cannon be claimed that there is one tendency dominant enough to outweigh the rest. and which could be labelled as a planned search for novelty.

This "multitude without unity", generally present in fine arts, is typical for of the second art moderne period.

Regarded a broader plane the period of the second moderne is defined by globality as "reflexive world society" dominated by the "world social perception", and globalisation as processes directly influencing the social and cultural state of the world. This implies that "different types of ecological, cultural, economic, political, and social and civic globalisations coexist in parallel, and cannot be mutually reduced or transcribed, but must be understood each for itself' and within their interdependencies".¹ What is important for art is that globalisation determined by a process creating trans-national social connections and spaces, while making local cultures more valuable and emphasising third cultures.