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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

    In recent years, following my study of positive and negative from, I have been trying to create a spiritual plastic form, that is able to surpass the form that people see in daily life.

    Xu Xiangdong worked in the Daqing Printmaking Institute until he went to study printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and then at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1991 and 1992. He studied further in 1997 and stayed at CAFA to teach in the woodcut workshop after finishing his studies. Xu’s early woodcuts mostly depict an industrialized subject matter, and use multi-coloured blocks. Since the late 1990s, he has abandoned the use of colour in his prints and has turned to the monochrome expression of modern people’s spiritual struggle, depression and sorrowfulness.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    2004
    Artist/maker
    Xu Xiangdong (born 1962) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 190 x 46.2 cm (height x width)
    print 152.8 x 32.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.89
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 123 on p. 134, illus. p. 134

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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

    In recent years, following my study of positive and negative from, I have been trying to create a spiritual plastic form, that is able to surpass the form that people see in daily life.

    Xu Xiangdong worked in the Daqing Printmaking Institute until he went to study printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and then at the China National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1991 and 1992. He studied further in 1997 and stayed at CAFA to teach in the woodcut workshop after finishing his studies. Xu’s early woodcuts mostly depict an industrialized subject matter, and use multi-coloured blocks. Since the late 1990s, he has abandoned the use of colour in his prints and has turned to the monochrome expression of modern people’s spiritual struggle, depression and sorrowfulness.
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