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Snowy Dusk, 1999
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Mr. Ding Lisong is both a traditional and a modern Chinese printmaker. His technique - working with water-soluble inks in the so-called wet-water technique - is the traditional Chinese method of making a woodblock print. And the selection of his subjects and the way how Mr. Din Lisong brings them on paper, are modern and traditional at the same time. His prints show the quiet beauty of Chinese landscapes.

Director of Quidong Print Institute

Mr. Ding Lisong was born in 1938 in Nantong of Jiangsu province. When he graduated from Nantong University in 1957, he began his art career. In the early 1980s he established the first Chinese Print Institute - Qidong Print Institute. Mr. Ding Lisong became its first director.

Affiliations

• First grade artist honored by Chinese State Department.
• Member of Chinese Artists Association.
• Member of Chinese Printmakers Association.

Exhibitions and Awards

Village in the Clouds, 2002
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Art works by Ding Lisong have been exhibited and collected in China and overseas.

1984 - The woodcut "Summer Movement" won the copper prize of the 6th National Art Exhibition in China.
1990 - The artist was honored with the "Luxun Printmaking Prize" by "Printmaking World", a Chinese art magazine.
1995 - The artist won the silver prize of the 3rd International Art Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.
1996 - Ding Lisong was honored as one of the great printmakers in China.
1996 - Golden prize by Japanese International Print Institute.

Technique

Mr. Ding Lisong works in the technique of the traditional Chinese woodblock - wet water technique with water-soluble inks. His subjects are Chinese landscapes. The artist's prints have an air of quietness and eternal beauty. The old Zen principle "Less is More" is the "leitmotiv" of the artist's woodblock creations.

Collections

Tide Up and Down, 1999
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Woodblock prints by Ding Lisong were collected by the Chinese National gallery, the National Library in Paris, Fukuoka Gallery of Japan and others.

Publications

There has been a publication titled Ding Lisong's Woodcuts. But we have no publisher, ISBN number etc. We will try to research this on short term. The data that we receive from China is often very unprecise. Chinese people have a different attitude that does not meet the standards of Western artist resumés.

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