id:			163859
accession number:	2005.257
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.257
updated:		2023-01-11 16:02:51.044000

Public Grain, 2004. Yun-Fei Ji (Chinese, b. 1963), Harlan & Weaver. Color etching and aquatint; sheet: 92.5 x 72.6 cm (36 7/16 x 28 9/16 in.); platemark: 71 x 62 cm (27 15/16 x 24 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Judith and James A. Saks 2005.257

title:				Public Grain
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creation date:			2004
creation date earliest:		2004
creation date latest:		2004
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creditline:			Gift of Judith and James A. Saks
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culture:	China, 21th Century
technique:	color etching and aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Yun-Fei Ji (Chinese, b. 1963)  - artist

* Harlan & Weaver  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 92.5 x 72.6 cm (36 7/16 x 28 9/16 in.); Platemark: 71 x 62 cm (27 15/16 x 24 7/16 in.)
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	description:	chine collé on wove paper
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	inscription:	lower margin, in graphite: 22/35; Yun-Fei Ji; 04
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen
	opening date:   2016-02-12T00:00:00
	<i>Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 12-July 31, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 12, 2016 - July 31, 2016); “Ji Yunfei: Last Days of Village Wen”

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PROVENANCE

	Judith and James A. Saks, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-2005
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2005-
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wall description:
In traditional paintings by the scholar-painter, the essential private garden often includes fields for growing crops. This archetypal detail signifies the ideal of a rural life of self reliance and finds its root in the poem “Return Home” by Tao Qian (AD 365–427), which depicts withdrawal from officialdom into a free and humble life in the countryside. <br><br>Ji Yun-Fei’s contemporary work points to the disappearance of ideals replaced by failed revolutionary ideologies in modern Chinese history. In this painting, the rural setting becomes a stage set for human exploitation of Mother Earth and depletion of natural resources under the Communist propaganda of producing “more, faster, better, and cheaper” during the Great Leap Forward (1958–1961).
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