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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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  • Literature notes

    Cracked wooden grains, irregular edges and rifted barks in natural shapes- these happen to coincide with my usual stand, which is to destroy and overturn perfection in my art.

    Kang Ning graduated from the printmaking section of the painting department at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, remaining in the Academy to teach. He is currently a professor in the Academy’s printmaking department. Kang Ning mainly works in monochromatic woodblock printmaking, which is typical of the printmakers from the Sichuan regions, especially Chongqing. Since the late 1980s, Kang Ning has gradually developed his own woodcut vocabulary by the use of vigorous parallel lines, changeable texture and unexpected patterns. His style has engendered many followers from the younger generation.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    2004
    Artist/maker
    Kang Ning (born 1950) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 109 x 46 cm (height x width)
    print 93 x 40 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.32
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 121 on p. 132, illus. p. 132

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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

    Cracked wooden grains, irregular edges and rifted barks in natural shapes- these happen to coincide with my usual stand, which is to destroy and overturn perfection in my art.

    Kang Ning graduated from the printmaking section of the painting department at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, remaining in the Academy to teach. He is currently a professor in the Academy’s printmaking department. Kang Ning mainly works in monochromatic woodblock printmaking, which is typical of the printmakers from the Sichuan regions, especially Chongqing. Since the late 1980s, Kang Ning has gradually developed his own woodcut vocabulary by the use of vigorous parallel lines, changeable texture and unexpected patterns. His style has engendered many followers from the younger generation.
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