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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

    I attempt to employ the strengthened or distored traditional icon (in art) to 'indiscriminately apply' traditional subject matter and reorganize it, in order to experiment with the icon's polysemy and the possibility of reinterpreting traditional imagery.

    After graduation, in 1986, from the Printmaking Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Sui Cheng taught at the Fine Art Department of Shenyang University Normal College. He later became deputy head of the faculty. He is now a professor at Shenzhen University College of Art, and also works as an editor of the journal Chinese Printmaking. Sui works on both printmaking and installation, specialising in monochrome woodcut with a rough liner style and implied figures. Inspired by the semiotics of art, he has been endeavouring to create his own distinctive visual symbols.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    2003
    Artist/maker
    Sui Cheng (born 1965) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 62 x 40 cm (height x width)
    print 40 x 29 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.53
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 116 on p. 127, illus. p. 127

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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

    I attempt to employ the strengthened or distored traditional icon (in art) to 'indiscriminately apply' traditional subject matter and reorganize it, in order to experiment with the icon's polysemy and the possibility of reinterpreting traditional imagery.

    After graduation, in 1986, from the Printmaking Department of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, Sui Cheng taught at the Fine Art Department of Shenyang University Normal College. He later became deputy head of the faculty. He is now a professor at Shenzhen University College of Art, and also works as an editor of the journal Chinese Printmaking. Sui works on both printmaking and installation, specialising in monochrome woodcut with a rough liner style and implied figures. Inspired by the semiotics of art, he has been endeavouring to create his own distinctive visual symbols.
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