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Yan Han (1916-2011)

Great Wall—A Link of Peace and Friendship

1987

Woodblock print

47 x 55 cm

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Yan Han was an important educator, as well as artist, in the new PRC but was condemned during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957-58. He was politically attacked again during the Cultural Revolution. Yan re-emerged in the 1980s with works in a new, apolitical style – geometric and often abstract. Here he notes the symbolic importance of China’s Great Wall, but presents it playfully, like a folded strip of coloured paper. He was thoroughly re-habilitated and much honoured in his final years.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number yanhv046