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Ancient Town on the Yangzi River
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1987
- Artist/maker
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Yang Keyang (1914 - 2010) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 65.8 x 58.8 cm (height x width)
print 55.6 x 50.3 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.68
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 83 on p. 94, illus. p. 94
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
In making artwork, one should be willing to part with things, and dare to part with them, but the result is not devoid of content, rather it is drama within drama and image beyond image.
Having studied the cartoons of Feng Zikai (1895–1975) Yang Keyang began to produce woodcut prints in 1937 under the direction of Ma Da (1903–78). From 1941, Yang was involved in the woodcut movement and produced and traded woodcut tools, and also edited woodcut books and journals. From the 1950s, Yang worked in the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House for more than 40 years and established the Banhua Yishu (The Art of Printmaking) journal in 1980. Absorbing elements from the pictorial foundations of the Han dynasty, Yang’s woodcuts render forms in heavy, thick and forceful outlines and use strong colours to depict landscape and folk scenes.
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