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Yang Keyang (1914-2010)

Morning in Shanghai

1994

Woodblock print

77 x 63 cm

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Compare this print with Wang Qi’s on the same theme (no.52) -- China’s rapid urbanization and development. Both were designed late in the artists’ careers. Where Wang Qi’s monochrome is in the style of European social realist graphics, Yang’s poster-like print shows influences of Chinese and Western Impressionist painting, with bold, curving lines and strong colour contrasts. Artists of the next generation, too, explore aspects of urban bustle and speeded-up, crowded living in new, innovative styles (nos. 99, 102, 103, 104).

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