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.
Rustic figures and animals
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Description
Cheng Shifa was born in Songjiang county in the vicinity of Shanghai. He studied traditional Chinese painting at Shanghai Art Academy in the late 1930s, and subsequently earned a living through book illustration and New Year pictures. He concentrated on figure painting, in which he was influenced by Ren Yi, the leading painter of the Shanghai School. After visiting southwest China in the late 1950s he specialized in paintings of China’s national minorities. In 1956 he joined the Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy, of which he later became a director. During the 1970s his attention turned to bird and flower painting.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Shanghai province (probable place of creation)
- Date
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painted 8 April 1973
calligraphy 1985
- Artist/maker
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Cheng Shifa (1921 - 2007) (artist)Xie Zhiliu (1910 - 1997) (calligrapher)
- Material and technique
- ink and colour on paper; mounted on paper, framed with ling silk pieces; backed with paper scroll
- Dimensions
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16.5 x 134.5 cm (height x width)
colophon 16.5 x 82.5 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 70th birthday of Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 2002.
- Accession no.
- EA2002.76
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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