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Keep the Motherland in Mind and Put the Whole World in View
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designed 1965
printed 2003
- Artist/maker
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Dong Jiansheng (born 1936) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 67 x 46.5 cm (height x width)
print 49 x 38.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.19
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 42 on p. 51, illus. p. 51
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Incomparable happiness for me is wandering in the colourful world of black and white.
Until 1962 Dong was a self-taught artist who followed Hu Kao (1912–1994), an eminent cartoonist and printmaker. In 1981, he fulfilled one of his dreams by further developing his study of printmaking at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Until 1996, he worked as a full-time printmaker in the Hebei Art Institute. During his career he has experimented with different styles and media in his prints, absorbing elements from Soviet realism, Chinese folk art and decorative graphic arts. His early woodcut prints appear to be propagandist in style. Inspired by the scenery of the Taihang Mountain and the Yellow Plateau, Dong’s later monochrome woodcuts present symbolic meditations on the endurance and daily struggles of ordinary people.
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