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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 my career as an artist, my goal is to approach perfection and sincerity, using my cutting knife to enrich my life.

    Yu Chengyou joined a training class run by printmakers of the Great Northern Wilderness School in the early 1980s. He also studied at Jixi Normal School and worked in Jixi Mass Arts Centre in Heilongjiang province from 1987 to 2002. He is a professional printmaker in the Heilongjiang Provincial Printmaking Institute. He works in both water-soluble colour and oil-based ink woodblock printmaking, with a wide range of subject matter that includes birds and flowers, figures, animals, and especially the natural scenery of north-east China. His recent woodcuts often use traditional objects and calligraphy, and are usually neatly and finely cut and printed with multi-blocks.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    designed 2003 - printed 2006
    Artist/maker
    Yu Chengyou (born 1953) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 55 x 64 cm (height x width)
    print 44 x 53 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Yu Chengyou, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.71
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 117 on p. 128, illus. p. 128

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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

    In my career as an artist, my goal is to approach perfection and sincerity, using my cutting knife to enrich my life.

    Yu Chengyou joined a training class run by printmakers of the Great Northern Wilderness School in the early 1980s. He also studied at Jixi Normal School and worked in Jixi Mass Arts Centre in Heilongjiang province from 1987 to 2002. He is a professional printmaker in the Heilongjiang Provincial Printmaking Institute. He works in both water-soluble colour and oil-based ink woodblock printmaking, with a wide range of subject matter that includes birds and flowers, figures, animals, and especially the natural scenery of north-east China. His recent woodcuts often use traditional objects and calligraphy, and are usually neatly and finely cut and printed with multi-blocks.
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