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The Green Flute
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Details
- Series
- Dreams of Nature
- Associated place
- Date
- 1992
- Artist/maker
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Gu Wenming (born 1964) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- waste-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 70.5 x 69.5 cm (height x width)
print 55 x 59.8 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.22
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 90 on p. 101, illus. p. 101
Glossary
waste-block
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waste-block
Waste-block, or lost-block printing, requires one block, which is gradually cut between prints to build up the layers of the image. When the image is complete, the block has little printing surface remaining.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
The harmony between man and nature should be the eternal pursuit of makind.
Gu studied painting at the Fine Art Department of Harbin Normal University in 1981. In 1990–91 he followed further studies in printmaking at the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived in Beijing since the late 1990s as an independent artist and has worked in a broad range of art forms including painting and sculpture. Gu is well known for his waste-block woodblock techniques, with the fairy tale as subject matter.
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