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.
Fuchun River
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Description
This painting depicts the Fuchun River in Zhejiang province, one of the popular subjects of the Jiangnan landscape, one of Song Wenzhi specialisms. The brushwork used to depict woods in this painting is consistent with that seen in his later works reprinted as propaganda posters in the 1970s [see EA2006.215 featured in the partner exhibition Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s], yet new features such as pylons and iron bridges are less explicitly represented here.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province (Tonglu) (place of creation)Asia › China › Zhejiang province (Fuchun River) (subject)
- Date
- June 1964
- Artist/maker
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Song Wenzhi (1919 - 1999) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper; mounted on layers of paper, framed with ling silk pieces; backed with paper scroll
- Dimensions
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mount 200 x 68 cm approx. (height x width)
painting 59.3 x 65.5 cm (height x width)
along roller 77.5 cm (width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1966.
- Accession no.
- EA1966.197
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Further reading
Vainker, Shelagh, Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 122 on p. 141, illus. p. 141 fig. 122
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Song Wenzhi was born in Taicang county in Jiangsu province. Originally an art teacher, he studied painting with Zhu Qizhan and Lu Yanshao, and later with Wu Hufan (q.v.), and in 1957 joined the Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy. He was later deputy head of Nanjing Art Academy and toured the country with Fu Baoshi (q.v.) and other artists in 1960. Song Wenzhi is well known for his work of the late 1950s and early 1960s in which contemporary political trends are reflected in traditional style landscapes, and as a landscapist of the Jiangnan region.
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