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Vigorous Grass

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  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    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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