Reading
Nie Ou is a female painter at the Beijing Painting Academy. This sparse and simple composition is typical of her work. ‘Reading’ is one of her favourite subjects to paint, in particular reading in an isolated environment. Both the subject and the style are probably inspired by the simplicity and the hardship of life in the countryside when she was sent to be a ‘re-educated youth’ during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
Details
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Title
Reading
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Artist/maker
Nie Ou (born 1948) -
Associated place
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Date
1948 - 1995 -
Material and technique
ink and slight colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
frame 83.5 x 83.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 67 x 67 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented in honour of the forthcoming 70th birthdays of Jose Mauricio and Angelita Trinidad Reyes, 1995.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1995.223
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Catalogue text
This sparse and simple composition is typical of Nie Ou's work. She has written that during the Cultural Revolution she was sent from Beijing, where she as a student, to live in a small village in the north China plains, and that the simplicity and the hardship of life there have inspired much of her painting.
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