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

    Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum

    'Following the times' should be the rule for the development of the subject: if one is unable to find solutions to contemporary problems in art, one will lag behind the times.

    In 1960 Wei Qian studied at the Middle School attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Between 1963 and 1978, he worked as a cultural propaganda officer in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. He graduated with a Master’s degree in 1981 from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He is now the head of the Fine Arts Department at the Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan. Wei Qian specializes in etching techniques, a genre not practised by many Chinese printmakers. His early works are mostly depictions of Xinjiang ethnic minority people, executed in realistic chiaroscuro. Since 2000, he has experimented with an etching technique that combines antique Chinese texts with drawings of ancient figures.

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