Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Art in China in the 1960s and 1970s

(from 15th Apr 2011 until 15th Jan 2012)

Explore woodblock prints and ink paintings from around the period of the Cultural Revolution in China.

Detail of Dancing: Highland Barley Series No. 2, China, 1961 (Museum no. EA2007.80)
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Album of Selected Landscapes by Qian Songyan

  • Description

    Qian Songyan was born in Yixing, Jiangsu province. He studied painting and calligraphy at a private school before attending a further education college. He subsequently taught at several schools, but spent most of his career at Wuxi College of Fine Arts in Jiangsu. Qian is known primarily as a traditionalist landscapist under the influence of the Ming and Qing literati painters. In 1960 he became one of the chief figures in the newly founded Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy. That Autumn, Qian spent three months travelling across six provinces to develop new ways of depicting landscape, together with Fu Baoshi, the head of the Academy, and other Academy artists including Ya Ming, Song Wenzhi and Wei Zixi. Later these artists are known as the ‘Jiangsu group’ for their extensive travels around the country and their subject of nationalistic celebration.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaChina Hong Kong (place of creation)
    Date
    probably 1960
    Artist/maker
    Qian Songyan (1899 - 1985) (artist)
    Song Wenzhi (1919 - 1999) (calligrapher)
    Yu Jifu (born 1921) (calligrapher)
    after Su Shi (1037 - 1101) (author)
    Material and technique
    ink and colour on paper; bound in card covered with ling silk
    Dimensions
    album 35.5 x 46.8 x 1.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    page 23 x 26 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented in honour of the 70th birthday of Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 2002.
    Accession no.
    EA2002.113

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