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Chen Yuping, born 1947
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If destiny had not meant him to become a printmaker, maybe Chen Yuping would have become a famous musical composer. This is the first impression you have when looking at his art works. Chen Yuping creates landscape symphonies.

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Career and Prints of Chen Yuping.

Chen Yuping, born in 1947, is a "late vocation". He had studied Hydraulic Engineering and worked as a hydraulic technician in the transformation of the "Great Northern Waste Land" into an agricultural center. In 1973 he had begun to dabble in printmaking. In 1983 the hobby turned into his new profession, after he had completed a course in printmaking at the CAFA (Chinese Academy of Fine Arts) in Beijing. Since then, he has made his way inside and outside of China.

Chen Yuping works in the traditional woodblock technique and uses oil-based inks. His usual edition is around 100, relatively high for a printmaking artist in China, where a commercial market has not been existing until only a few years ago. It shows the appreciation that he has been enjoying in China and elsewhere since the 1980s.

Chen Yuping and the Great Northern Waste Land

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China Prints - Article
My Home is by the Songhua River, 1982
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The artist's works show strong and vivid colors. Chen Yuping is the master of the landscape genre. And he shows what he knows so well - the landscapes of the "Great Northern Waste Land". At a superficial look, one could consider many of his designs as close to abstract compositions. But in our opinion something would be lost, if Chen Yuping gave up the connection and reference to landscapes. As Pablo Picasso once expressed himself about abstract art:

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality."

Affiliations

• Member of China Printmaker Association.
• Member of China Artists Association.
• Professional artist at the Printmaking Institute of Heilongjiang province.
• Vice-chairman and secretary-general of the Provincial Print Council of Heilongjiang.
• Chen Yuping holds a Grade 1 in the "official" ranking of Chinese national artists.

The artist is one of the 60 Chinese woodblock printmakers who were selected for the collection of the London based Muban Foundation.

Exhibitions and Awards

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Chinese Printmaking Today
Bright Moon, 2003
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• 1974 - "The Fading Snow Hurried the Spring" was selected for the 5th National Art Exhibition, and was published in the exhibition catalogue. In the same year, this print was exhibited in the "Chinese Modern Artworks Show" organized by UNESCO.
• 1978 - "First Snow on the Mirror Lake" was selected for the 6th National Art Exhibition.
• 1979 - "On this Ancient Land" was selected for the 6th National Art Exhibition
• 1982 - "My Home is by the Songhua River" was selected for the 8th National Print Exhibition.
• 1984 - "Time Eroding" was selected for the 7th National Print Exhibition.
• 1990 - "September Wind" was selected for the 10th National Print Exhibition.
• 1991 - "The Eulogy of Spring" was selected for the art exhibition for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
• 1992 - "High Sky and Rich Soil" won the copper prize of the 11th National Print Exhibition.
• 1992 - "October - The Music of the North" was selected for the National Artworks Exhibition.
• 1993 - "Feeling of Birch Wood" was selected for the Chinese Print Category Exhibition.
• 1994 - "The 8000-li Road: Clouds and Moon" won the grand prize (highest prize of this exhibition) in the 8th National Art Exhibition.
• 1994 - "Evening Fragrance" was selected for the 12th National Print Exhibition.
• 1995 - "The Long Great Wall" was selected for the International Art Exhibition for celebrating the 50th anniversary of the "Victory against the Fascists".
• 1997 - "Happy Song" was selected for the 13th National Print Exhibition.
• 1998 - "The Grass Grows again when the Spring Breeze Blows" was selected for the 14th National Print Exhibition and won the cooper prize.
• 1999 - "Song of the Gale" won the outstanding artwork prize of the 9th National Art Exhibition.
• 2000 - "Abundant Collection" was selected for the 15th National Print Exhibition.
• 2002 - "Red Sun, Dark Green Water and Gray Mountains" was selected for the National Art Exhibition and won an outstanding artwork prize.
• 2002 - "Moon Night of Gusu City" was selected for the 16th National Print Exhibition and won an outstanding artwok prize.
• 2003 - "Bright Moon" was selected for the first Beijing International Biennial Print Exhibition and was collected by the China Art Museum of Beijing.
• 2003 - "Hot Earth" won the copper prize in the second Chinese Golden Color Art Exhibition.

Chen Yuping - Solo Exhibitions in Japan

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Books about Chinese Prints
Eulogy of Spring, 1991
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Chen Yuping won many provincial prizes and the renowned Lu Xun prize. His artworks have been collected by national and international art museums and collectors. Since the 1990s he has had four solo exhibitions in Japan. His print works were published in two books - "Chen Yuping banhua xuanji" - in Hong Kong and in Taiwan.

Literature Reference

The Art of Contemporary Chinese Woodcuts, A portfolio assembled by Christer von der Burg, with contributions by An Bin, Julia F. Andrews, David Barker, Hwang Yin, Ellen Johnston Laing and Frances Wood  9.25 x 13", 268 pp., 60 color and 171 b/w illustrations, paper, London, 2003.

Dieter Wanczura
(April 2005, updated October 2009)

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