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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

    My work marks the direction towards the sacred land, no matter how far I am going to travel. In the end I hope what I have been pursuing is not a mere dream, nor the sacred place a vague and empty desolate town.

    Wang Bing first studied art at the Zhangye Normal Vocational School in Gansu and in 1984 he studied printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. On his return to Gansu, he worked as a professional printmaker at the Gansu Art Institute, leaving in 1997, when he went to Düsseldorf to study printmaking and oil painting. After completing a five-year course and a Master’s degree, he worked in CAFA’s Architecture Department. Wang is well known for his monochrome prints of Tibet, which he depicts as an idealized sacred land. His dramatic cutting technique and ingenious use of composition create a distinctive dream-like realm filled with mystery, gravity and vitality.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1996
    Artist/maker
    Wang Bing (born 1961) (printmaker)
    Associated people
    Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (subject)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    mount 68.5 x 50.7 cm (height x width)
    sheet 41.7 x 50.3 cm (height x width)
    print 27.9 x 35.7 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.54
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 96 on p. 107, illus. p. 107

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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

    My work marks the direction towards the sacred land, no matter how far I am going to travel. In the end I hope what I have been pursuing is not a mere dream, nor the sacred place a vague and empty desolate town.

    Wang Bing first studied art at the Zhangye Normal Vocational School in Gansu and in 1984 he studied printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. On his return to Gansu, he worked as a professional printmaker at the Gansu Art Institute, leaving in 1997, when he went to Düsseldorf to study printmaking and oil painting. After completing a five-year course and a Master’s degree, he worked in CAFA’s Architecture Department. Wang is well known for his monochrome prints of Tibet, which he depicts as an idealized sacred land. His dramatic cutting technique and ingenious use of composition create a distinctive dream-like realm filled with mystery, gravity and vitality.
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