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Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript

(from 28th Feb until 19th May 2013)

Explore the innovative landscape work of one of China’s most renowned contemporary artists.

Detail of Family Plots, by Xu Bing, Beijing, 1988 (Museum no. LI2007.61)
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Farmyard with a tree and an outhouse

  • Description

    François Boucher is associated with a more opulent and leisured era than the other French artists displayed here, and this drawing reflects a harsher reality than he normally painted. His interest in rural life is less sympathetic than Jean-François Millet’s yet demonstrates nonetheless that the subject of rustic simplicity predates the 19th century.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Europe France (place of creation)
    EuropeFrance Paris Department Paris (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1703 - 1770
    Artist/maker
    François Boucher (1703 - 1770) (artist)
    Material and technique
    black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on greenish blue paper; laid down on card, with gold leaf and black ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 34.6 x 53 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1950.
    Accession no.
    WA1950.14
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 28 February-19 May 2013, Xu Bing Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing, Shelagh Vainker, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 26 on p. 61, pp. 16, 155, illus. p. 61 fig. 26

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