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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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Tranquil Dream of Mountains and Rivers No. 4

  • Literature notes

    I like to indulge myself with the oriental characteristic, the freedom and flexibility of shuiyin (water-soluble colour-printed) woodcut.

    In 1989, Fang Limin graduated from the Education Department of the China National Academy of Fine Arts. He began postgraduate study at the Printmaking Department in 1996. After three years he gained his Master’s degree and was offered a teaching position at the Academy. He is currently the deputy head of the Printmaking Department there. Fang’s early work emphasizes historical themes and earthy scenes of rural life. His water-soluble colour-printed woodcuts exemplify a spontaneity and unaffected perception of the traditional woodcut printing technique, and a fusion of tradition and modern, realism and abstraction.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    2006
    Artist/maker
    Fang Limin (born 1964) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 93 x 33 cm (height x width)
    print 82.5 x 25 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.20
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 125 on p. 136, illus. p. 136

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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 like to indulge myself with the oriental characteristic, the freedom and flexibility of shuiyin (water-soluble colour-printed) woodcut.

    In 1989, Fang Limin graduated from the Education Department of the China National Academy of Fine Arts. He began postgraduate study at the Printmaking Department in 1996. After three years he gained his Master’s degree and was offered a teaching position at the Academy. He is currently the deputy head of the Printmaking Department there. Fang’s early work emphasizes historical themes and earthy scenes of rural life. His water-soluble colour-printed woodcuts exemplify a spontaneity and unaffected perception of the traditional woodcut printing technique, and a fusion of tradition and modern, realism and abstraction.
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