Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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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.

Detail of Dancing: Highland Barley Series No. 2, China, 1961 (Museum no. EA2007.80)
We Are the Force Criticizing Lin Biao and Confuciusfront

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We Are the Force Criticizing Lin Biao and Confucius

  • Description

    This print depicts factory workers involved in the political campaign to ‘Criticize Lin Biao and Confucius’, one of a series of political movements in the Cultural Revolution. The information panel reads: ‘Reading and studying hard, criticizing Lin and Confucius in depth’. The style of this work reflects the 1970s mainstream influence of Soviet socialist realism. Wang Jieyin is now a professor at the College of Fine Arts of Shanghai University.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › China (place of creation)
    Date
    1973
    Artist/maker
    Wang Jieyin (born 1941) (printmaker)
    Associated people
    Lin Biao (1907 - 1971) (named on object)
    Confucius (551 - 479 BC) (named on object)
    Material and technique
    woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    sheet 70 x 99 cm (height x width)
    print 61 x 74.5 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    printed › relief print › woodcut
    Object type index
    visual representation › print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.57

  • Further reading

    Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 46 on p. 55, illus. p. 55

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Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

    I am a very simple person and I do not have much talent for dining or dressing. Yet God is fair: I have a special talent on canvas.

    In 1966, Wang Jieyin graduated from the Shanghai School of Art. He became a teacher there in 1977 and in 1986 he pursued his studies further at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is now a professor at the College of Fine Arts in Shanghai University. Wang’s early work reflects the 1970s mainstream influence of Soviet socialist realism. His recent work combines traditional literary art, folk art and abstract art to form his own visual language in prints and paintings, with a purely aesthetic concern.
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