April-May 2000, Shanghai No. 1
Artist: Xiaoze Xie (Chinese, born 1966)
Date: 2001
Dimensions:
52 3/4 × 75 in. (134 × 190.5 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Given in honor of Andria Derstine, Director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Object number: 2021.3
DescriptionDepicts two stacks of Chinese newspapers, folder over each other with a dark, neutral background. The painting combines a long tradition of still-life painting with photorealism. Based on a photograph, it has an edginess to its realism with its lack of complete focus at the edges of the top of the stack of papers.
On view