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Fu Jihong (b. 1974)

Thoughts on Fruit

1999

Woodblock print

68 x 84 cm

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Fu Jihong teaches at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, but unlike Kang Ning (no. 124), specializes in woodblock printing with colours. Looking at this print, one might make a couple of immediate associations. The first is Diego Rivera’s peasant folk, especially the hats. Secondly, the sexual connotation of the apple’s stamen is impossible to miss. Sexual references feature in the depiction of fruits by several other contemporary Chinese artists.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number fuvjh003