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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

    Along the road of art, it does not matter if one is slow; as long as one does not stop, if one trudges ceaselessly over a long distance, step by step one will get closer to one's ideal world.

    Li Yili began to experiment with printmaking in 1972 when he was sent to the countryside as an ‘intellectual youth’. He studied at South-western Normal University Art College and graduated in 1977. In the 1980s, he worked in Qijiang County Cultural Centre, achieving great social impact by organizing and encouraging local farmers to become involved in printmaking. Li is currently General Secretary of the Chongqing Artists’ Association. Having absorbed elements of Chinese traditional line drawing and folk prints, since the 1990s Li has devoted himself in recent years to his unique ‘opaque water soluble colour prints’, which use one or two blocks to produce rich and colourful effects with gouache.

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