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Auction China Contemporary Art - 548 ends Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 8:00:00 PM local time (CET) = 6 hours ahead of US EAST in 2 days, 14 hours and zero minutes. New users please register now! Edutainment > Articles on Art > Yunnan Art School > Ma Li - born 1958Ma Li belongs to the artists of what has become known as the Yunnan Art School. His prints are colorful and expressive and are centered around Ma Li's passion - the mountains of Yunnan and the people who live there. Born in Yunnan ProvinceMa Li was born in the Southern Yunnan Province. Both his parents had moved from the plains in the North to this South-Western province of China. Since 1986 he has exhibited widely in China, Japan and also in the UK. Ma Li's works are colorful. His style reminds somewhat of French fauvism or German expressionism. Most of his subjects are centered around the ethnic minority people who live in the mountainous areas of Yunnan. Ma Li teaches at the Simao University in Yunnan. He has held workshops in printmaking in Bristol in the United Kingdom - mainly about a special technique that he and other artists of the Yunnan Art School developed and use - the woodblock reduction technique. Awards
MediaThe artist works in the traditional woodcut technique. He uses oil colors for printing. A speciality of Ma Li is the so-called woodblock reduction technique that he and other artists developed in Yunnan. The technique uses one woodblock for all colors by cutting the image for the next color from the same block. Thus the original woodblock is reduced further and further, color by color. Apart from the artistic challenge, this technique assures that after the first edition no further copies can be printed. The original block does not exist any longer. EditionsAll prints that we have encountered by Ma Li so far are small editions, signed, numbered and dated in pencil by the artist. The edition size is very small - 10 or below in the 1990s and after 2000 you can find edition sizes up to 20 copies. Like for many Chinese contemporary artists, Ma Li's economic basis is his position in teaching art. He is therefore not dependant on producing large editions for a commercial market and can develop his creativity without having to cater for potential art buyers. The small edition size and the time-consuming and challenging woodblock reduction technique require and justify that prints by Ma Li are slightly more expensive compared to other contemporary Chinese artists. In springtime of 2004, artelino began to offer art prints by Ma Li for reserve prices starting at USD 150. The general level of contemporary Chinese prints is presently (spring time 2004) distinctively below international standards. Ma Li and his Sentiments for MountainsMa Li wrote the following text, titled "My sentiments for mountains", in which he explains why the motif of mountains plays such a paramount role in his artistic creativity.
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