Wang Wei 王煒 (b. 1942), Cut Mark – Paying Tribute to  Anti-Japanese Woodblock Prints , 刻痕 – 向抗戰木刻致敬, 2015 , Screen print, 70 x 140 cm

MET registration no. wanwv001

This colourful screen print commemorates the 70th anniversary of China's victory in the War of Resistance to Japan (1937-45). The print is full of imagery related to woodblock prints, especially those of the artist's father, Wang Qi (1918-2016), one of whose prints is recognizable in the top right corner. The importance of woodblock prints to China’s war effort was acknowledged in the foreign press, by sympathetic journalists such as Agnes Smedley (1892-1950) and author Pearl Buck (1892-1973).