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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

    Along the road of art, it does not matter if one is slow; as long as one does not stop, if one trudges ceaselessly over a long distance, step by step one will get closer to one's ideal world.

    Li Yili began to experiment with printmaking in 1972 when he was sent to the countryside as an ‘intellectual youth’. He studied at South-western Normal University Art College and graduated in 1977. In the 1980s, he worked in Qijiang County Cultural Centre, achieving great social impact by organizing and encouraging local farmers to become involved in printmaking. Li is currently General Secretary of the Chongqing Artists’ Association. Having absorbed elements of Chinese traditional line drawing and folk prints, since the 1990s Li has devoted himself in recent years to his unique ‘opaque water soluble colour prints’, which use one or two blocks to produce rich and colourful effects with gouache.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    designed 2004 - printed 2006
    Artist/maker
    Li Yili (born 1954) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 85 x 86 cm (height x width)
    print 74 x 74 cm (height x width)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.44
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 122 on p. 133, illus. p. 133

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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

    Along the road of art, it does not matter if one is slow; as long as one does not stop, if one trudges ceaselessly over a long distance, step by step one will get closer to one's ideal world.

    Li Yili began to experiment with printmaking in 1972 when he was sent to the countryside as an ‘intellectual youth’. He studied at South-western Normal University Art College and graduated in 1977. In the 1980s, he worked in Qijiang County Cultural Centre, achieving great social impact by organizing and encouraging local farmers to become involved in printmaking. Li is currently General Secretary of the Chongqing Artists’ Association. Having absorbed elements of Chinese traditional line drawing and folk prints, since the 1990s Li has devoted himself in recent years to his unique ‘opaque water soluble colour prints’, which use one or two blocks to produce rich and colourful effects with gouache.
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