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Serene Lake

平湖

1949–76

Mo Ce 莫測

(Chinese, 1928–2023)
publisher

Duo Yun Xuan

Culture
China
Medium
Woodcut print; ink and oil on paper
Measurements
25.6 x 19.7 cm (10 1/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas and Patricia Ebrey 2025.570
Copyright
© Mo Ce
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This type of Mao-era print illustrates and documents the continuation of China’s woodcut printing tradition, a medium invented in China.

Description

Under Chairman Mao, printmakers were encouraged to continue to make prints in support of the country’s modernization efforts. Themes included women joining the workforce as soldiers, farmers, and steel workers to help construct the new socialist state, as well as joining men in the fields. New motifs such as tractors, trains, electrical equipment, and smoking chimneys were introduced into landscape scenery to illustrate a prospering China.
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Serene Lake

1949–76

Mo Ce, Duo Yun Xuan

(Chinese, 1928–2023)
China

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