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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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The Green Flute

  • Literature notes

    The harmony between man and nature should be the eternal pursuit of makind.

    Gu studied painting at the Fine Art Department of Harbin Normal University in 1981. In 1990–91 he followed further studies in printmaking at the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived in Beijing since the late 1990s as an independent artist and has worked in a broad range of art forms including painting and sculpture. Gu is well known for his waste-block woodblock techniques, with the fairy tale as subject matter.
  • Details

    Series
    Dreams of Nature
    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1992
    Artist/maker
    Gu Wenming (born 1964) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    waste-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 70.5 x 69.5 cm (height x width)
    print 55 x 59.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.22
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 90 on p. 101, illus. p. 101

Glossary

waste-block

  • waste-block

    Waste-block, or lost-block printing, requires one block, which is gradually cut between prints to build up the layers of the image. When the image is complete, the block has little printing surface remaining.

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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

    The harmony between man and nature should be the eternal pursuit of makind.

    Gu studied painting at the Fine Art Department of Harbin Normal University in 1981. In 1990–91 he followed further studies in printmaking at the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived in Beijing since the late 1990s as an independent artist and has worked in a broad range of art forms including painting and sculpture. Gu is well known for his waste-block woodblock techniques, with the fairy tale as subject matter.
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