In August 1931, Lu Xun organized China's first modern woodcut technique study class in Shanghai, the Woodcut Workshop, which was the beginning of the professional education of Chinese printmaking. Because modern Chinese printmaking was born in the early 20th century, when the national crisis was deep, and under the guidance of Lu Xun's realist literary and artistic thought and "popular" revolutionary thought, it shares the same fate as modern China: it expresses the revolutionary process of modern China and the soul of revolutionary struggle, is full of the spirit of the times, and is connected with the joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows of the people, and the pursuit of ideals.
After 1949, due to the improvement of creative conditions and the no longer need to reproduce works through printmaking for publicity, many important painters engaged in printmaking turned to the creation of oil paintings and Chinese paintings, resulting in printmaking retreating from the position of the most important painting genre.
Watermark woodcut combines China's traditional woodblock watermark method with modern creative printmaking: on the basis of absorbing Chinese painting ink techniques, combined with watercolor, gouache and other Western painting color techniques, due to the use of ink color, absorbent rice paper and other materials, the unique watermark color color printmaking is formed. It has not only a vigorous and pure, clear and clear texture print, but also a water-colored, hazy and elegant artistic conception of smoke and rain, which is endlessly interesting.
Li Shaoyan is a native of Linyi, Shandong. He is good at printmaking and is the designer of the first stamp during the liberation of Yan'an. In 1938, he went to study at Shaanbei Public School in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Border Region and began to create woodcuts. He has successively served as vice chairman and chairman of the Sichuan Branch of the China Artists Association, a first-class artist, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, vice chairman of the Chinese Artists Association, secretary of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, vice chairman of the China Printmakers Association, and vice chairman of the Sichuan Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1432
Li Shaoyan ** (double-sided).
Original woodcut made in 19**.
40×34.5cm
Bibliography: Li Shaoyan's Printmaking Collection, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997.
Published: People**, March 14, 1965, 6th edition.
rmb：25,000-35,000
usd：3,500-4,900
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1433
Li Shaoyan a**.
Original woodcut made in 19**.
40×34cm
Bibliography: Li Shaoyan's Printmaking Collection, p104, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997.
rmb：15,000-25,000
usd：2,100-3,500
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1435
Li Shaoyan A group of Japanese soldiers who rushed into the fire array.
Black-and-white woodcut on paper, 1944.
16×28×4cm
Signature: 1.
1. The bunker was besieged and turned into a prison Li Shaoyan 1944
2. Second, I came out to grab grain with fear Li Shaoyan in 1944.
3. Third, landmines are everywhere and it is difficult to move an inch Li Shaoyan for 44 years.
4. Fourth, Attacked by Our Army and Civilians Everywhere Li Shaoyan 1944.
Bibliography: Li Shaoyan's Printmaking Collection, p35-38, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997.
Selected Prints of Li Shaoyan, p10-13, Sichuan People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1982.
Awards: Forward-Chongqing Art Museum Collection Li Shaoyan's "First and Second Divisions in North China" woodcut group painting exhibition won the second prize of "Seven Seven Seven" Literary and Artistic Works in the Jinxi region, 1944.
rmb：20,000-30,000
usd：2,800-4,200
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1440
Li Shaoyan The old street has a new look.
In 196, he made a colored woodcut on paper.
39×24cm
Signed: The New Look of the Old Street (one of the paintings of the Urban People's Commune) Li Shaoyan.
Bibliography: Li Shaoyan's Printmaking Collection, p86, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997.
Selected Works of Li Shaoyan, p17, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1963.
Selected Prints of Li Shaoyan, p49, Sichuan People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1982.
rmb：12,000-22,000
usd：1,700-3,100
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1437
Li Shaoyan rebuilt.
Black and white woodcut on paper, 1942.
32×24cm
Signed: Reconstruction by Li Shaoyan engraved in 1942.
Bibliography: Li Shaoyan's Printmaking Collection, p32, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997.
Selected Works of Li Shaoyan, p3, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1963.
Selected Prints of Li Shaoyan, p8, Sichuan People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1982.
rmb：10,000-20,000
usd：1,400-2,800
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1438
Li Shaoyan's forty-year wish.
Black and white woodcut on paper, 1953.
27×46cm
Signed: Forty Years of Wish Li Shaoyan 1953
Bibliography: Li Shaoyan's Printmaking Collection, p61, Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 1997.
Selected Works of Li Shaoyan, p7, People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1963.
Selected Prints of Li Shaoyan, p25, Sichuan People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1982.
rmb：10,000-20,000
usd：1,400-2,800
Li Hua, a native of Panyu, Guangdong. He graduated from the Guangzhou Municipal School of Fine Arts in 1927 and studied in Japan in 1930. In 1934, he organized the "Modern Printmaking Society" in Guangzhou, and was one of the pioneers of the emerging woodcut movement in response to Lu Xun's call. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he traveled with the army to Hunan and Jiangxi, held anti-Japanese woodcut exhibitions, promoted woodcarving movements, and initiated and organized the "National Woodcarving Association to Resist the Enemy". In 1947, he was invited by Xu Beihong to be a professor at the National Beiping Art School. He devoted himself to the student patriotic and democratic movement, and his works appeared in the parade in the form of leaflets, such as "Asking for Food from the Gun" and "Unity is Strength". After 1949, he successively served as a professor at the ** Academy of Fine Arts, concurrently served as the editor of "People's Fine Arts" in 1950, and was responsible for the establishment of the Department of Printmaking in 1954 and served as the director of the Department of Printmaking for 33 years. In 1980, he served as the first chairman of the Chinese Printmakers Association, and vigorously promoted the development of Chinese printmaking. At the same time, he is the executive director and consultant of the Chinese Artists Association. Representative works include "Roar, China! ", the group of paintings "Angry Tide" (struggling, grabbing, resisting grain, rising), "Labor Reserve Army", "Conquest of the Yellow River", etc. He has successively published albums and works such as "Li Birch Woodcut Collection", "New Theory of Fine Arts", "Westinghouse Gossip", "Theory and Practice of Woodcut", "Research on Woodcut Printmaking Techniques" and so on.
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1445
Li Hua: Prepare for farming.
Black and white woodcut on paper, 1961.
19×30cm
Signed: 6 50 Preparation for cultivation Li Hua 1961
Bibliography: "*Collection of the Art Museum Department of the Academy of Fine Arts, Li Hua", p88, Anhui Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008.
rmb：7,000-15,000
usd：1,000-2,100
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1442
Li Hua, Diary of a Madman.
Black and white woodcut on paper, 1963.
25×18cm
Signed: Diary of a Madman Li Hua 1963
Bibliography: Li Hua's Paintings, p78, Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1987.
rmb：6,000-12,000
usd：800-1,700
Guangdong Chongzheng 10th Anniversary Autumn Auction Lot 1443
Li Hua, a martyr of Roushi.
In 1962, he painted a black and white woodcut on paper.
24×19cm
Signed: Roushi Martyr Li Hua 1962
Bibliography: Li Hua's Paintings, p77, Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House, 1987.
People Bimonthly Issue 1 Back Cover 1983.
Poems of Revolutionary Martyrs, p49, China Youth Publishing House, 1959.
rmb：6,000-12,000
usd：800-1,700