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.
Landscape with figures
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Description
Chen Zizhuang, also known as Shihu in his late years, was from Rongchang, Sichuan province. He studied traditional painting, calligraphy and seal carving, and was especially interested in archaic scripts. In the 1950s he developed his own style in the belief that the strokes of brushwork in painting should be the same as in calligraphy.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Sichuan province (place of creation)Asia › China › Sichuan province (Jianmen Pass) (subject)
- Date
- 1913 - 1976
- Artist/maker
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Chen Zizhuang (1913 - 1976) (artist)
- 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 130 x 60 x 1.9 cm (height x width x depth)
mount 125.2 x 56 cm sight size (height x width)
painting 95.6 x 44.1 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.
- EA1995.174
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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. 9 on p. 21, p. 8, illus. p. 21 fig. 9
Vainker, Shelagh, ‘Modern Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 42/3, (Autumn 1996), p. 5, illus. p. 4 fig. 5
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 simple yet uncharacteristically monumental landscape, signed with the artist's alternative name Shi Hu, depicts the notoriously treacherous Jianmen pass in his native Sichuan province. It was through this pass that the Tang emperor Minghuang (r.712-56) fled from his capital; the perils of the landscape are recorded in some of the most famous Tang dynasty poems and paintings.
Notice
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