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Mo Ce (b. 1926)

Huangpu River

1986

Woodblock print

34 x 50 cm

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Mo Ce worked on a great range of subjects during his long career, from propaganda images of communal progress to apolitical landscapes and waterscapes. He experimented with various techniques of shading and silhouetting. In the 1980s, he used a technique that creates the feeling of looking through a screen, as in this print, depicting the Bund in Shanghai. Although it is made from a woodblock, it looks like the mechanical style of cutting seen in commercial, machine-cut zinc-line blocks.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number movcv006