The Revolving Moon: 25 Prints from China

Liu Chunjie (刘春杰), b. 1965, 856 State Farm, Heilongjiang The Revolving Moon, 1992 multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink These images come from the hard-to-find book Chinese Prints 1950–2006 in the Ashmolean Museum by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker. They are also on the Ashmolean website. I provided links beneath each image, though the site seems to have some glitches (and the links might all be dead). I say "hard-to-find" but good news: "Eastern Art Online will soon present an online version of Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum, enabling visitors to browse and search all the objects and their high-quality zoomable images featured in this publication..." [at which point this post becomes even more useless] For some reason I've been sitting on this post since November 2012 (maybe waiting for the online version of the book to appear?). It was meant to be paired with the post "Dancing On and Beneath the Great Wall." All works © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford and the artists or their estates Li Yili (李毅力), b. 1954, Qijiang, Chongqing Hometown Record, 2004 woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink Wang Bing (王兵), b. 1961, Gannan, Gansu Restaurant in Grazing Land, 1996 woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Chen Long (陈龙), b. 1974, Heilongjiang State of Existence, 2003 waste-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink on canvas Chen Yanlong (陈彦龙), v. 1965, Fujin, Heilongjiang Impact, 2002 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Ma Hongwen (马洪文), b. 1962, Qing'an, Heilongjiang Autumn Dance, 2003 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Dai Daquan (代大权), b. 1954, Beijing The Head of the Yaozemao Village, 2003 woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Yu Chengyou (于承佑), b. 1953, Jimo, Shandong Misty Morning, 2003 multi-block woodcut, printed with water-soluble ink Chao Mei (晁楣), b. 1931, Heze, Shandong September in the North, 1963 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Chao Mei (晁楣), b. 1931, Heze, Shandong The First Track of Footprints, 1960 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Quote from the book: "This work records an event during the late 1950s when ten million soldiers were sent to the Great Northern Wilderness in northeast China to become agricultural workers; Chao Mei was one of them." Kong Fanjia (孔繁佳), b. 1957, Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Vigorous Grass, 1992 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Dai Zhengsheng (戴政生), b. 1954, Quxian, Sichuan A Distant Sound from the East, 1998 woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Chen Haiyan (陈海燕), b 1955, Fushun, Liaoning Dream - Shout, 2004 woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Gu Wenming (谷文明), b. 1964, Yakeshi, Inner Mongolia (in Beijing since 90s) Dreams of Nature series no. 1 - The Green Flute waste-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Xu Bing (徐冰), b. 1955 Chongqing Life Pond, 1987 woodcut; ink inscription Guang Jun (广军), b. 1938, Shenyang, Liaoning Picking Lotus, 1985 screenprint Li Qun (力群), b. 1912 Lingshi, Shanxi Beijing Snow scene, 1957 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Read about Li Qun, who died at age 100 in 2012 Li Qun, In the Trees, 1980 woodcut, printed with oil-based inkSu Xingping (苏新平), b. 1960, Jining, Inner Mongolia, teaches in Beijing Magic series, 2000 lithograph Chen Yuping (陈玉平), b. 1947, Ning’an, Heilongjiang Autumn Sound Also see this Chinese blog post. Song Wenzhi, 1919–1999 New Aspects of Lake Tai, 1973 painting reproduced as lithograph [inscribed "painted at Xishan at Dongting in Suzhou, March 1972'] Xu Xiangdong, b. 1962, Heilongjiang Dream, 2004 woodcut, printed with oil-based inkQijia Dawa (其加达瓦), b. 1946, Ganzi, Sichuan Ancient Temple on the Plateau, 1981 woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Yu Chengyou (于承佑), b. 1953, Jimo, Shandong Night in a Small Village, 1984 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink "In my career as an artist, my goal is to approach perfection and sincerity, using my cutting knife to enrich my life."—Yu Chengyou Liu Chunjie, Heilongjiang Deer's Call, 1993 multi-block woodcut, printed with oil-based ink Previously: The Great Northern Wasteland This post first appeared on December 5, 2013 on 50 Watts