Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of the Ashmolean collection of Chinese paintings by Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2000).
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Bird and lotus
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Literature notes
Li Kuchan was born in Gaotang, Shandong province and moved to Peking in 1919. He studied painting at the After Hourse Painting Research Society (yeyu huafa yanjiu hui), where he met Xu Beihong, and subsequently at the Peking Academy, where he was influenced by Qi Baishi. He graduated in 1925. He also studied Western art with the Czechoslovakian professor Vojtech Chytil. He taught Chinese painting at Hangzhou and then in Beijing, though he always retained his early interest in Western painting. -
Description
The artist Li Kuchan, under his pseudonym Ligong, inscribes: ‘Those I envy most are the flying birds in the sky; but I could not bear to leave the secular world; therefore I see off white clouds, make aged pines my friend, and wander around. In the sixth month it rained heavily without stopping, which made me feel particularly lonely and upset, so I talked to friends and painted this, not knowing that the lotus has blossomed’.
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- 1898 - 1964
- Artist/maker
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Li Kuchan (1898 - 1983) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper
- Dimensions
- 116.84 x 50.8 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1964.
- Accession no.
- EA1964.77
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 75 on p. 94, illus. p. 95 fig. 75
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Li Kuchan was born in Gaotang, Shandong province and moved to Peking in 1919. He studied painting at the After Hourse Painting Research Society (yeyu huafa yanjiu hui), where he met Xu Beihong, and subsequently at the Peking Academy, where he was influenced by Qi Baishi. He graduated in 1925. He also studied Western art with the Czechoslovakian professor Vojtech Chytil. He taught Chinese painting at Hangzhou and then in Beijing, though he always retained his early interest in Western painting.
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