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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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Expressing Grievances

  • Literature notes

    Those exquisite inspirations of mine, often come from grief and misfortune.

    In 1935 Yan Han began studying Chinese and Western art at the National Art School, Hangzhou (now called the China National Academy of Fine Arts). After the outbreak of the war against the Japanese invasion of 1938, he moved to Yan’an to study woodblock printmaking at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts. As a soldier, artist and art teacher, during the following years he went to Taihang Mountains, Shenyang and Hangzhou until 1951 when he was appointed to teach art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. After his return from the Korean War in the early 1950s, he established the Printmaking Department in the CAFA. His early work reflects China’s turbulent social changes, and since the 1980s his style has turned to abstraction.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1946
    Artist/maker
    Yan Han (1916 - 2011) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 35 x 46 cm (height x width)
    print 14 x 19.6 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.65
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 2 on p. 5, p. xii, illus. p. 5

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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

    Those exquisite inspirations of mine, often come from grief and misfortune.

    In 1935 Yan Han began studying Chinese and Western art at the National Art School, Hangzhou (now called the China National Academy of Fine Arts). After the outbreak of the war against the Japanese invasion of 1938, he moved to Yan’an to study woodblock printmaking at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and Arts. As a soldier, artist and art teacher, during the following years he went to Taihang Mountains, Shenyang and Hangzhou until 1951 when he was appointed to teach art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. After his return from the Korean War in the early 1950s, he established the Printmaking Department in the CAFA. His early work reflects China’s turbulent social changes, and since the 1980s his style has turned to abstraction.
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