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Vigorous Grass
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1992
- Artist/maker
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Kong Fanjia (born 1957) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 74 x 93.5 cm (height x width)
print 60.6 x 80 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Kong Fanjia, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.98
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 91 on p. 102, illus. p. 102
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
I wish to depict this black earth with all my sincerity.
Kong Fanjia studied printmaking with Hao Boyi (q.v. See cat no. 72 [EA2007.25]) during the 1980s and is currently employed as an art teacher in the No. 15 Middle School in Jiamusi. Although Kong has no experience of studying in an art college, he has lived in the area where the Great Northern Wilderness School originated and is nurtured by that school: he is one of the few printmakers who still works in that area. In subject matter, Kong’s woodcuts reflect the vastness of the northern landscape. Using multiple blocks and layers of colour, as do many Heilongjiang artists, he has interpreted the ‘black earth’ with a distinguished lyrical style.
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