作品《拿鱼》在第一届全国青年美展获奖；《峡江春闹》在第九届全国版画展获奖。出版有《莫测木刻选集》、《三川新曲——莫测木刻选》、《莫测黑白木刻》、《莫测版画集》等。

 莫测从小热爱美术，勤于自学。16岁起在一家报社当刻字徒工，经常向报刊投稿。1948年被《新常熟报》聘为文艺副刊助理编辑，既编辑文稿又创作木刻版画。1949年初江南解放，该报由中国人民解放军接管。莫测参加革命工作后，得以饱览《八年抗战木刻集》、《解放区木刻集》等画册，不仅大开眼界，且对木刻版画的兴趣更加炽烈。1953年，莫测成为一名水利人，曾先后在治淮陈列馆和国家水利部专事展览设计。由于工作实际需要，能够广泛接触祖国水利建设、基层生活和大好河山，这极大激发了他的美术创作热情。1955年，其套色木刻作品《拿鱼》在第一届全国青年美展获奖，并在《人民日报》发表，产生过很大影响。从此，版画创作成了他终生不懈追求的事业。

因为熟悉水、热爱水，水就自然而然地成了他版画创作的主题。几十年来，他深入到大小水电工地，跋涉于山峦江河之间，热爱生活，热爱艺术，对版画创作执着追求的他，共创作出了600多件歌颂祖国人民治山治水、创造新生活的版画作品，深受各界好评。尤其，他善用抒情的刀笔，把江南水乡的含蓄清晰，明丽温馨表现得淋漓尽致。曾被艾青先生赞誉为“水的歌手”，被日本美术家联盟主席北冈文雄先生称颂为“世界著名的十位水的画家之一”。

“我爱版画，我爱水。我致力于用木刻画来反映水，反映和水有联系的事物，反应和水有关系的社会生活。我通过对水的表现，来抒发对祖国和人民的真诚感情，同时也体现了自己对美的追求。”谈及水，莫测强调：“水是生命之源。我的刻刀跟随水的足迹，去探索大自然的奥秘，抒写山川风貌；跟随水的足迹，去观察人生的真谛，去捕捉生活中的诗情。水的形式多种多样，大自然的风姿千变万化，社会生活的表现丰富多彩。如何把我经历过的感受到的事物用自己的心灵和属于自己创造的版画语言，在创作中体现出来，成为主客观相互统一的艺术品，则是我多年苦苦追求的目标。”

中国美协理事、艺术委员会委员、中国版协副主席晁楣先生评价先生说：“水，关系着他的心绪；水，浸染着他的每一根神经；水，直接影响着莫测的创作构思、构图及至创作个性风貌。”

先生虽已年过八旬，但神清气爽，精力充沛，谈吐沉稳，思维敏捷。他说是版画给了他“第二个青春”，对版画艺术强烈的探索兴趣使他的老年生活极为充实。我们深信，由于长期的生活积累和版画技艺的磨练以及艺术修养的逐步提高，先生的版画创作必然会更有所提高有所发展，因为这位水的歌手，纵然晚年也保持着充沛的活力和创作热情，一如既往跟随着水的足迹，延伸着他的版画创作生涯。

 Unfathomable love art since childhood, diligent in self-study. Since the age of 16, he has worked as an engraving apprentice in a newspaper and often contributed to newspapers and magazines. In 1948, he was employed as assistant editor of Literary Supplement by Xinchangshu Newspaper. He edited manuscripts and created woodcut prints. In early 1949, the newspaper was taken over by the People's Liberation Army of China. After participating in the revolutionary work, Mozart was able to enjoy such albums as "Woodcut Collection of Eight Years of Anti-Japanese War" and "Woodcut Collection of Liberated Areas", which not only opened his eyes, but also showed more keen interest in woodcut. In 1953, Mo Qiao became a water conservancy man. He had been specializing in exhibition design at the Huaihe River Control Exhibition Hall and the Ministry of Water Resources. Because of the actual needs of his work, he can have extensive contact with the water conservancy construction of the motherland, grass-roots life and good rivers and mountains, which greatly stimulates his enthusiasm for artistic creation. In 1955, his colored woodcut work "Naiyu" won an award at the first National Youth Art Exhibition and was published in People's Daily, which had a great impact. Since then, printmaking has become his lifelong unremitting pursuit of the cause.

Because he is familiar with water and loves it, water naturally becomes the theme of his printmaking creation. For decades, he has gone deep into large and small hydropower sites, trekked between mountains and rivers, loved life, loved art, and pursued printmaking creation persistently. He has created more than 600 printmaking works extolling the motherland people's management of mountains and rivers and creating a new life, which are highly praised by all walks of life. Especially, he is good at using Lyric knives and pens to express the connotations of Jiangnan Waterfront clearly and vividly. He was praised by Mr. Ai Qing as a "singer of water" and by Mr. Kitaoka, Chairman of the Japan Artists Association, as "one of the ten famous water painters in the world".

"I love prints, I love water. I am committed to using woodcarving to reflect water, to reflect things connected with water, and to reflect social life related to water. Through the performance of water, I express my sincere feelings for the motherland and the people, but also reflects my pursuit of beauty. When it comes to water, it is unpredictable to emphasize that water is the source of life. My carving knife follows the footprints of water, to explore the mysteries of nature, to express the landscape; to follow the footprints of water, to observe the true meaning of life, to capture the poetry of life. The forms of water are various, the style of nature is changeable, and the performance of social life is rich and colorful. How to use my own soul and printmaking language, which belongs to my own creation, to embody the things I have experienced, and to become a work of art with the unity of subjective and objective, is the goal I have been pursuing for many years.

Mr. Chao Mei, member of the Board of Directors, Art Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Edition Association, commented: "Water is related to his mood; water is permeated with every nerve of him; water directly affects the unpredictable creative conception, composition and creative personality style."

Although he is over eighty years old, he is refreshing, energetic, calm in speech and quick in thinking. He said that printmaking gave him "the second youth", and his strong interest in the art of printmaking enriched his old life. We are convinced that, due to the long-term accumulation of life, the training of printmaking skills and the gradual improvement of artistic accomplishment, Mr. Wang's printmaking creation will inevitably be improved and developed, because the water singer, even in his later years, has maintained full vitality and enthusiasm for creation, as always following the footprint of water, extending his. Print-making career.