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A Distant Sound From the East
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1998
- Artist/maker
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Dai Zhengsheng (born 1954) (printmaker)
- Material and technique
- woodcut, printed with oil-based ink
- Dimensions
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sheet 93 x 93 cm (height x width)
print 90 x 90 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2007.
- Accession no.
- EA2007.18
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Further reading
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 100 on p. 111, illus. p. 111
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum
When I am creating artwork, the starting point and the goal of expression in my work is to elucidate and clarify traditional Chinese culture and the progression of original creative power in life, by means of using direct, condensed, pure and profound woodcut language.
Dai Zhengsheng graduated from the Da County Normal College in Sichuan in 1980, following which he studied printmaking and painting successively at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, South-western Normal University in Chongqing and at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He is now a deputy head of the College of Art at the South-western University in Chongqing. Dai’s work constructs an imaginative and vibrant world, often on a massive scale, with a finely cut monochrome woodcut technique, illustrating his will to transcend the material sense and reach a fantasy space. Dai has assimilated and rooted his art deeply in Chinese ancient art and folk art.
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