The Great Wall
Details
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Title
The Great Wall
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Artist/maker
Qian Songyan (1899 - 1985) -
Associated place
Nanjing (place of creation) -
Date
1950 - 1979 -
Material and technique
ink and colour on paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
frame 94 x 65.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 67.5 x 51.6 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.
EA1995.235
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Catalogue text
Qian Songyan was the foremost of artists using red in paintings of the 1960s as an allusion to Mao Zedong and the Communist cause, often in works that combined landscape with depictions of industrial progress. The red is here applied as on overlay of dian in the traditional manner.
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