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Reading
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Description
Nie Ou is a female painter at the Beijing Painting Academy. This sparse and simple composition is typical of her work. ‘Reading’ is one of her favourite subjects to paint, in particular reading in an isolated environment. Both the subject and the style are probably inspired by the simplicity and the hardship of life in the countryside when she was sent to be a ‘re-educated youth’ during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 1948 - 1995
- Artist/maker
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Nie Ou (born 1948) (artist)
- Material and technique
- ink and slight colour on paper
- Dimensions
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frame 83.5 x 83.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 67 x 67 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
- Accession no.
- EA1995.223
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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. 59 on p. 49, illus. p. 49 fig. 59
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Modern Chinese Paintings: The Reyes Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
This sparse and simple composition is typical of Nie Ou's work. She has written that during the Cultural Revolution she was sent from Beijing, where she as a student, to live in a small village in the north China plains, and that the simplicity and the hardship of life there have inspired much of her painting.
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