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.
Snow on Mount Emei
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Description
Wu Jingting, also known as Xizeng, was born in Beijing and worked there throughout his career. He began studying painting at the age of 17 by imitating the Qing professional painter Wang Hui and other traditional landscape painters. In 1920 he went to Japan for a Sino-Japanese painting exhibition. Before 1949 he taught at the Jinghua College of Fine Arts, and afterwards mainly at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 1958 he was selected as one of the founders of the Beijing Academy of Art. He travelled throughout China, and specialized in landscape painting.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Sichuan province › Mount Emei (subject)
- Date
- 1961
- Artist/maker
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Wu Jingting (1904 - 1972) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and slight colour on paper; mounted on layers of paper, framed with juan silk pieces; backed with paper scroll
- Dimensions
- 68.58 x 45.72 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
- Purchased, 1964.
- Accession no.
- EA1964.76
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 137 on p. 160, illus. p. 161 fig. 137
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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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Wu Jingding was born in Beijing and worked there throughout his career. He began studying painting at the age of seventeen, at the painting academy attached to Peking University, and in 1920 went to Japan. Before 1949 he taught at the Jinghua Art College, and afterwards mainly at the Central Academy of Fine Art. He travelled throughout China, and specialised in landscape painting.
Notice
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