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Snow over the Waterside Village
Wu Jide Chinese
Not on view
In the post-Mao era the landscape of Zhejiang Province became a major theme for printmakers attempting to recover traditional culture by asserting local identity. Wu Jide, a major exponent of this movement, produced a set of twenty-two prints of carefully observed local scenes and customs for a children’s book entitled Plum Rain, published in 1989. This print from the set demonstrates Wu’s special technique of block printing opaque colors on a dark ground to achieve textural variety and chromatic luminosity.
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