A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Chinese prints from 1950-2006 by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2007).
This work presents a sorghum harvest scene in the Great Northern Wilderness state farm in northeast China, where the artist worked as an agricultural worker, an editor, and an artist. It shows how, after a few years hard reclamation, the wasteland has been transformed into a fertile agricultural resource. Over the years Chao has been using non-key block techniques with dense and rich colours to depict the wild beauty of the northern land.
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 34 on p. 42, p. 53, illus. p. 42
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