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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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Galloping Rhythm

  • Literature notes

    For many years, Hong Tao worked as a clerical officer in Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Manufactory, only beginning to make prints during the 1970s. He followed a printmaking course at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 1987. Hong Tao is well known for the industrial subject matter of his woodcut prints, which relate to the environment with which he is most familiar, although he currently works as an ‘official’ artist in the Zhuzhou Artists’ Association in Hunan. Hong’s prints since the 1990s reflect the speed, turbulence, chaos and noisy scenery of the modern, ever-changing China, with contrasting colour and semi-abstract forms.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    2000
    Artist/maker
    Hong Tao (born 1948) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 76 x 90 cm (height x width)
    print 67.5 x 80 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.28
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 109 on p. 120, illus. p. 120

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

    For many years, Hong Tao worked as a clerical officer in Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Manufactory, only beginning to make prints during the 1970s. He followed a printmaking course at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in 1987. Hong Tao is well known for the industrial subject matter of his woodcut prints, which relate to the environment with which he is most familiar, although he currently works as an ‘official’ artist in the Zhuzhou Artists’ Association in Hunan. Hong’s prints since the 1990s reflect the speed, turbulence, chaos and noisy scenery of the modern, ever-changing China, with contrasting colour and semi-abstract forms.
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