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Portrait of Qu Yuan
Yang Newei (Yang Nawei) Chinese
Not on view
The poet-statesman Qu Yuan (ca. 340 B.C.–ca. 278 B.C.) is a towering figure in Chinese culture for his literary talent and moral rectitude. His rhapsodic composition Songs of the South is a beloved classic, while his tragic suicide by drowning serves as an extreme gesture of protest and uncompromising loyalty.
Yang Newei began making woodblock prints about 1937, without having received formal training, and he played an active role in promoting woodcuts in his native Guangxi Province. A member of the All-China Woodcut Artist Association for Resistance, he created a number of works depicting the wartime devastations of the Sino-Japanese War (1937–45).
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