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Mother's Tears
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Details
- Series
- The Bleeding World - Nanjing Massacre
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- Date
- 1984 - 1986
- Artist/maker
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Cheng Mian (born 1933) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 89.1 x 68.4 cm (height x width)
print 67.5 x 54.2 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.15
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 80 on p. 91, illus. p. 91
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
Together with the art form that depicts the vitality and liveliness of mankind, is the emotional and spiritual pursuit of my life; I hope the trace of my soul will express my complete sincerity.
Cheng Mian graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing in 1961, and following a two-year lectureship at the CAFA, became an editor of Xinhua Daily in Nanjing. Since 1978, he has worked as a professional printmaker at the Jiangsu Artists’ Association. Cheng’s woodcut prints are worked in a variety of techniques and styles; however, the use of strong, expressive, contrasting black and white lines and planes is the main feature of his work. His well-known 14-part Nanjing Massacre Series, begun in 1984, depicts the massacre of the citizens of Nanjing by the Japanese in 1937.
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