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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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Laughter in the Orchard

  • Literature notes

    I want to use my life, my art, to praise the magnificence of Xinjiang, to praise her broadness and her tolerance, I want to cheer for her and sing for her.

    The first artistic education that Jiang Zhenhua received was from his father. In 1956 he entered the Middle School attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. In 1965, one year before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he graduated from the Printmaking Department of CAFA and in the same year he pursued his career in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, working as an editor with Xinjiang Pictorial Journal and Xinjiang Literature. In 1980, he was appointed as a full-time printmaker in Xinjiang Artists’ Association. Having spent more than four decades in Xinjiang, he is sentimentally attached to the land and the people of Xinjiang and has thrown all his emotional effort into producing realistic, monochromatic woodblock prints of this region.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia China (place of creation)
    Date
    1983
    Artist/maker
    Jiang Zhenhua (1941 - 2007) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    mount 60.8 x 81 cm (height x width)
    sheet 56 x 74 cm (height x width)
    print 43 x 59 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.31
  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 74 on p. 84, illus. p. 84

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    • Ground floor | Room 11 | Chinese Paintings

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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 want to use my life, my art, to praise the magnificence of Xinjiang, to praise her broadness and her tolerance, I want to cheer for her and sing for her.

    The first artistic education that Jiang Zhenhua received was from his father. In 1956 he entered the Middle School attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. In 1965, one year before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he graduated from the Printmaking Department of CAFA and in the same year he pursued his career in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, working as an editor with Xinjiang Pictorial Journal and Xinjiang Literature. In 1980, he was appointed as a full-time printmaker in Xinjiang Artists’ Association. Having spent more than four decades in Xinjiang, he is sentimentally attached to the land and the people of Xinjiang and has thrown all his emotional effort into producing realistic, monochromatic woodblock prints of this region.
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