Art in China in the 1960s and 1970s
(from 15th Apr 2011 until 15th Jan 2012)Explore woodblock prints and ink paintings from around the period of the Cultural Revolution in China.
View of a gorge with three boats
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Description
Xie Zhiliu, also known as Zhuangmuweng, is a landscape painter from Jiangsu province, a connoisseur who has written extensively on the masters of the Northern Song dynasty (AD 960-1127). His own landscapes make extensive use of colour within the classical limits of blue, green and buff pigments, which he sometimes brightened by mixing with Western watercolours. In this painting, he uses intensified classical colours throughout, even for some of the dots, to accentuate the forms of the landscape.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 1979
- Artist/maker
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Xie Zhiliu (1910 - 1997) (artist)Xie Zhiliu (1910 - 1997) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper; mounted on layers of paper, framed with juan silk pieces; backed with layers of paper
- Dimensions
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frame 102 x 52 x 1.9 cm (height x width x depth)
mount 97.9 x 48.2 cm sight size (height x width)
painting 66.8 x 35 cm (height x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.261
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 September-1 December 1996, Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vainker, Shelagh (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996), no. 97 on p. 73, p. 39, illus. p. 73 fig. 97
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
This composition, in which boats on a river are viewed from above a gorge, is a recurrent one in guohua painting of the mid-twentieth century. Xie Zhiliu uses intensified classical colours throughout, even for some of the dian (dots) which are generally added in ink, also seen here, to accentuate the forms of the landscape.
Notice
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