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Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Neither Mountain nor Water 4

Neither Mountain nor Water 4

2016
Location: not on view

Description

This series of five prints transforms landscape elements into abstract patterns while referencing the monochrome tradition of classical ink landscape painting. He Shanqing presses differently shaped and textured, black inked blocks of wood over a grid of preconfigured lines on a sheet of xuan paper. The results are impressions of remarkable variety in texture, monochrome ink shades, and shapes. The title, Neither Mountain nor Water, negates the subject of mountains and water (shan shui) in favor of and with an emphasis on graphic abstraction.

He Shanqing was born in Hunan Province. The first prize winner of the Third Muban Printmaking Award in 2017, he graduated from China Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with an MA degree one year later.
  • 2016-2020
    He Shanqing 何三青 [He Sanqing] [b. 1988], Wuhan, Hubei province, China, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art through the mediation of the Muban Educational Trust, London
    2020-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Modern Impressions - Light and Water in Chinese Prints (Chinese art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 2022-May 7, 2023).
    Chinese Woodblock Prints: Context and Practice. The Muban Educational Trust, St. Paul's School, London (January 17-February 5, 2019).
  • {{cite web|title=Neither Mountain nor Water 4|url=false|author=He Sanqing|year=2016|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.278.4