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| Artist: | Hao Ping (b. 1952) |
| Title: | Thinking |
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| Date of first edition?: | Not set |
| Publisher (first edition)?: | Not Set |
| Publisher (this edition)?: | Not Set |
| Medium (first edition): | Woodblock |
| Medium (this edition): | Woodblock |
| Format (first edition): | Not Set
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| Format (this edition): | Not Set |
| DB artwork code: | 37226 |
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| The following information was taken from the original web listing of this artwork. Note that there may be some inaccuracies:
10/01/2005
Title Thinking
Artist Hao Ping born 1952
Signature Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil.
Dated 2004
Technique/Medium Woodcut
Impression Printed in oil-based inks on a pliable, Chinese paper of middle thickness.
Edition Size 80
Numbered 10/80
Description "Thinking" We have no idea how Hao Ping approaches the design of a new print image. He must either be a natural genius or he follows some architectural approach, building a design step by step like an architect who designs a new building. The result is an astonishing equilibrium of complimentary colors, flat areas of different sizes, and always a certain compositional dynamic. The impression of "thinking" is achieved completely by the gesture of the oversized hand leaning towards the chin. Even the foot underlines the sentiment of thinking - it looks like bent against the body in a certain inner tension.
Note Hao Ping is one of the 60 contemporary Chinese woodblock artists selected for the collection of the London based Muban Foundation.
Width 19.5 inches = 49.5 cm
Height 19.5 inches = 49.5 cm
Width of Image 15.0 inches = 38.0 cm
Height of Image 15.0 inches = 38.0 cm
Literature Christer Von der Burg, "The Art of Contemporary Chinese Woodcuts", Muban Foundation, 2003, ISBN: 0954604814, - pages 136/137 |
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| Artist Bio: |
Hao Ping is a talented woodblock artist with concern on history and minority culture in south-eastern China. His first woodcut exhibition was held after "cultural revolution" and then he became more and more influential in the modern Chinese printmaking. His woodblock prints feature colorful and fascinating folklore of the ethnic minorities of Yunan province where is also his birth place. Today, this unique style reflects what is called today the Yunnan Art School.
The Career of Hao Ping
Prints and paintings by Hao Ping were widly exhibited in China, the United States, Japan and Europe. The following national and international exhibition events were listed - some without mentioning a year:
1992 - European Community art festival fine art work exhibition - Netherlands
1994 - Hao Ping personal work exhibition - Germany
1989 - copper award of the 7th national fine art exhibition
1983 - prominent work award at the 8th national print exhibition
Collections:
The works of the artist are in the posession of several museums in China and abroad.
1998 - China Fine Art Museum
1990 - Asia Pacific Museum, U.S.A.
1991 - Hsiangsheng Forest Fine Art Museum, Japan
1994 - Shenchun Fine Art Museum
1996 - Kiangsu Fine Art Museum
1996 - Lu Hsun Fine Art Museum
1996 - British Woodcut Foundation
1998 - Shenchou Print Museum
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