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Morning Melody

Zhang Wangqing Chinese
Fan Jingda Chinese

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This print presents an aerial view of the pier of an industrialized port. Beneath a network of iron pipes, people head to work in the early morning. The severe geometry of the design and abstract patterning of the seagulls’ wings give the composition a fascinating modernist edge.

Morning Melody, Zhang Wangqing (Chinese, born 1941), Woodblock print; oil based ink on paper, China

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