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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 depicting Qiu Jin I had something I wanted to say. Her tragedy moved me for a long time: I still remember the time when I cut 'Qiu Jin', dripping with sweat and tears, in a small storage room, my heart filled with grief and indignation.

    In 1966, Wang Gongyi graduated from the Middle School attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She studied printmaking at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now called The China National Academy of Fine Arts) in Hangzhou and graduated with a Master’s degree in 1980, the same year she started to teach in the faculty. From 1986, she frequently stayed in France and America as a visiting artist, and settled in the United States in 2001. The Qiu Jing series brought her national recognition, but in the mid-1980s, her work shifted towards abstraction and focused on oriental philosophical expression, which concerns Dao and spontaneity. She uses various media including lithography, etching, ink painting, calligraphy and installations.
  • Details

    Series
    Qiu Jin
    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    designed 1980
    printed 2007
    Artist/maker
    Wang Gongyi (born 1946) (printmaker)
    Associated people
    Qiu Jin (1875 - 1907) (subject)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 67 x 42.8 cm (height x width)
    print 60 x 40 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.56.a
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 52 on p. 64, illus. p. 64

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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 depicting Qiu Jin I had something I wanted to say. Her tragedy moved me for a long time: I still remember the time when I cut 'Qiu Jin', dripping with sweat and tears, in a small storage room, my heart filled with grief and indignation.

    In 1966, Wang Gongyi graduated from the Middle School attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She studied printmaking at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now called The China National Academy of Fine Arts) in Hangzhou and graduated with a Master’s degree in 1980, the same year she started to teach in the faculty. From 1986, she frequently stayed in France and America as a visiting artist, and settled in the United States in 2001. The Qiu Jing series brought her national recognition, but in the mid-1980s, her work shifted towards abstraction and focused on oriental philosophical expression, which concerns Dao and spontaneity. She uses various media including lithography, etching, ink painting, calligraphy and installations.
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