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New Year's Festival
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- Date
- 1982
- Artist/maker
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Guan Housheng (born 1948) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- mulit-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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mount 60.8 x 81 cm (height x width)
sheet 57.3 x 64.5 cm (height x width)
print 45.5 x 52.2 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.23
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 67 on p. 77, illus. p. 77
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
If a work has no cultural connotation and spiritual value in it, it is a mere empty formality.
Guan Housheng completed a printmaking course at the China Academy of Fine Arts in 1986 and is currently a full-time printmaker in Harbin Arts Institute. Under the influence of the Great Northern Wilderness School, Guan primarily uses the woodcut medium, with multiple blocks to depict country scene and folk activities. His recent work has moved away from explicit representation of social realism towards a simplification and abstraction of form.
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