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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Chinese prints from 1950-2006 by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2007).

Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

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Vigorous Grass

  • Literature notes

    I wish to depict this black earth with all my sincerity.

    Kong Fanjia studied printmaking with Hao Boyi (q.v. See cat no. 72 [EA2007.25]) during the 1980s and is currently employed as an art teacher in the No. 15 Middle School in Jiamusi. Although Kong has no experience of studying in an art college, he has lived in the area where the Great Northern Wilderness School originated and is nurtured by that school: he is one of the few printmakers who still works in that area. In subject matter, Kong’s woodcuts reflect the vastness of the northern landscape. Using multiple blocks and layers of colour, as do many Heilongjiang artists, he has interpreted the ‘black earth’ with a distinguished lyrical style.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1992
    Artist/maker
    Kong Fanjia (born 1957) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 74 x 93.5 cm (height x width)
    print 60.6 x 80 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Kong Fanjia, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.98
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 91 on p. 102, illus. p. 102

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    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

    I wish to depict this black earth with all my sincerity.

    Kong Fanjia studied printmaking with Hao Boyi (q.v. See cat no. 72 [EA2007.25]) during the 1980s and is currently employed as an art teacher in the No. 15 Middle School in Jiamusi. Although Kong has no experience of studying in an art college, he has lived in the area where the Great Northern Wilderness School originated and is nurtured by that school: he is one of the few printmakers who still works in that area. In subject matter, Kong’s woodcuts reflect the vastness of the northern landscape. Using multiple blocks and layers of colour, as do many Heilongjiang artists, he has interpreted the ‘black earth’ with a distinguished lyrical style.
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