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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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Keep the Motherland in Mind and Put the Whole World in View

  • Literature notes

    Incomparable happiness for me is wandering in the colourful world of black and white.

    Until 1962 Dong was a self-taught artist who followed Hu Kao (1912–1994), an eminent cartoonist and printmaker. In 1981, he fulfilled one of his dreams by further developing his study of printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Until 1996, he worked as a full-time printmaker in the Hebei Art Institute. During his career he has experimented with different styles and media in his prints, absorbing elements from Soviet realism, Chinese folk art and decorative graphic arts. His early woodcut prints appear to be propagandist in style. Inspired by the scenery of the Taihang Mountain and the Yellow Plateau, Dong’s later monochrome woodcuts present symbolic meditations on the endurance and daily struggles of ordinary people.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    designed 1965
    printed 2003
    Artist/maker
    Dong Jiansheng (born 1936) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 67 x 46.5 cm (height x width)
    print 49 x 38.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.19
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 42 on p. 51, illus. p. 51

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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

    Incomparable happiness for me is wandering in the colourful world of black and white.

    Until 1962 Dong was a self-taught artist who followed Hu Kao (1912–1994), an eminent cartoonist and printmaker. In 1981, he fulfilled one of his dreams by further developing his study of printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Until 1996, he worked as a full-time printmaker in the Hebei Art Institute. During his career he has experimented with different styles and media in his prints, absorbing elements from Soviet realism, Chinese folk art and decorative graphic arts. His early woodcut prints appear to be propagandist in style. Inspired by the scenery of the Taihang Mountain and the Yellow Plateau, Dong’s later monochrome woodcuts present symbolic meditations on the endurance and daily struggles of ordinary people.
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