25.  Painting in Republican-era Beijing and Shanghai

Republican era 1912-1949.

Concept: value

Names

Yuanmingyuan 圆明园 , looted by Allied Forces in 1860

Sun Yat-sen (aka Sun Yixian 孫 逸仙 , Sun Zhongshan 孫中山 , Sun Wen 孫文 1866 -1925), First President of the Republic

Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 將介石 1887-1975) , Kuo-min-tang Party 国民党 , referred to as the “KMT”

Mao Zedong 毛泽东 (1893-1976) Chinese Communist Party, referred to as the “CCP”

Objects

PRINTS

Shanghai Sketchbook 上海漫画 1927-28.

Qian Juntao 錢君匋 (1906-1998).   Cover design for Great Love .   1930. (10-22)

Lu Xun 鲁迅 (1881-1936). His short story, “The Madman's Diary,” was the first prose work written in modern Chinese.   Widely considered the “father” of modern Chinese fiction. Lu Xun also was the motivating force behind the woodblock print movement of the 1920s and early 1930s.

Cheng Shifa 程十髮 (b. 1921).   Illustration to chapter 98 of The True Story of Ah Q 5 x 3” (10-23)

Rong Ge.   Käthe Kollwitz.   Woodblock print. 1940.

            Compare with Kollwitz's (1867-1945) self-portrait

Hu Yichuan 胡一川 (b. 1910).   To the Front !   1932.   Woodcut, 9 x 12” (10-29)

PAINTINGS

guohua 國畫 :   “National-style painting” A modern term of reference for painting using traditional media, formats, and themes as an alternative to "Western-style" painting

Ding Cong 丁聪 (b. 1916).   Xianxiang tu, Images of Present Times.   1944.   Handscroll, gouache on paper 11 x 58” (10-35)

Guan Zilan 關紫蘭 (1903-1986).   Portrait of Miss L .   1929.   Oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 29 1/2” (10-8)   Compare with Matisse, Red Madras Headdress. 1907.   Oil on canvas, 99.4 x 80.5 cm.

Gao Jianfu 高劍父 (1879-1951).   Flying in the Rain .   1932.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 18 x 14” (10-39)   Compare with the work of the Japanese painter Takeuchi Seihô 竹内栖鳳, River Mouth, 1818.

Xu Beihong 徐悲鴻 (1895-1953).   Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountain.   1940.   Ink, color, paper. (10-34)

Chen Shizeng 陳師曾 (1876-1924).  Viewing Paintings at an Exhibition.  1917.   Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper; 34 1/2 x 18” (10-33)

Chen Shizeng (1876-1924). Beggar Woman.   From Beijing Customs. Album leaf, ink and color on paper; 11 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. (28.6 x 34.6 cm). 1914-1915. (10-26)