Period:Unknown Production date:1944-1945
Materials:paper
Technique:woodcut
Subjects:mining/quarrying landscape
Dimensions:Height: 25.40 centimetres ((Original paper size)) Width: 21 centimetres
Description:
Woodblock print with oil-based ink on paper. ‘The Quarrymen’ by Wang Qi, Chongqing, 1944-45.
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Comments:In the early 1940s, Wang Qi created a series of prints depicting local people and customs in Sichuan. In this print, we are given an overview of a quarry at high noon from the perspective of a couple of workers taking a break in the shade. The visual properties of a black and white woodcut underscore the scorching sunlight and the harshness of an inescapable condition.A student of Western painting at the Shanghai Fine Arts College, Wang Qi joined the massive exodus from eastern China in 1937, at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. He soon arrived in Yan’an, where he attended the newly established Lu Xun Institute of Literature and Art. He returned to his native city of Chongqing in late 1938.
Materials:paper
Technique:woodcut
Subjects:mining/quarrying landscape
Dimensions:Height: 25.40 centimetres ((Original paper size)) Width: 21 centimetres
Description:
Woodblock print with oil-based ink on paper. ‘The Quarrymen’ by Wang Qi, Chongqing, 1944-45.
IMG
Comments:In the early 1940s, Wang Qi created a series of prints depicting local people and customs in Sichuan. In this print, we are given an overview of a quarry at high noon from the perspective of a couple of workers taking a break in the shade. The visual properties of a black and white woodcut underscore the scorching sunlight and the harshness of an inescapable condition.A student of Western painting at the Shanghai Fine Arts College, Wang Qi joined the massive exodus from eastern China in 1937, at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. He soon arrived in Yan’an, where he attended the newly established Lu Xun Institute of Literature and Art. He returned to his native city of Chongqing in late 1938.
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