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New Year's Festival

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    Associated place
    China (place of creation)
    Date
    1982
    Artist/maker
    Guan Housheng (born 1948) (printmaker)
    Material and technique
    mulit-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
    Dimensions
    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)
    Material index
    paper
    Technique index
    colour woodcut
    Object type index
    print
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 2007.
    Accession no.
    EA2007.23

  • 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

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker

    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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