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Three heads, study for Starvation

  • Description

    Lin Zhi graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, the Slade School in London, and the University of Delaware. He has been the recipient of many awards, including Creative Capital Foundation Grant, Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Artists Award and National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship. He is currently Professor at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle.

    This is one of the careful studies the artist made of men condemned to death by starvation (while a banquet goes on nearby), one of a series of four very large paintings he executed between 1993 and 1999 on the theme of human indifference to suffering and cruelty.

    Based on extract from Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009)

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Europe › United Kingdom › England › Greater London › London (possible place of creation)
    North America › north America › United States of America › Delaware (possible place of creation)
    Date
    1996
    Artist/maker
    Lin Zhi (born 1959) (artist)
    Material and technique
    pencil on paper
    Dimensions
    mount 41.4 x 46.1 cm (height x width)
    painting 20 x 28 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    processed material › paper
    Technique index
    drawn (image)
    Object type index
    visual representation › drawing
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    On loan from the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection.
    Accession no.
    LI1486.21

  • Further reading

    Sullivan, Michael, Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2009), no. 66 on p. 271, illus. p. 271 fig. 66

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Location

    • Ground floor | Room 11 | Chinese Paintings

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