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The Green Flute

Glossary

waste-block

  • waste-block

    Waste-block, or lost-block printing, requires one block, which is gradually cut between prints to build up the layers of the image. When the image is complete, the block has little printing surface remaining.

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    • currently in research collection

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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

    The harmony between man and nature should be the eternal pursuit of makind.

    Gu studied painting at the Fine Art Department of Harbin Normal University in 1981. In 1990–91 he followed further studies in printmaking at the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived in Beijing since the late 1990s as an independent artist and has worked in a broad range of art forms including painting and sculpture. Gu is well known for his waste-block woodblock techniques, with the fairy tale as subject matter.

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