Modern Woodcut Movement
Nota de aplicación
An art movement spearheaded by Lu Xun in the 1930s that spread from Shanghai to other parts of China. With the belief in ‘art for the society,' Lu Xun actively promoted modern European and Soviet woodcut prints as well as organised woodcut classes, which inspired the establishment of numerous printmaking societies across China. In response to the Nationalist government’s failure to resist Japanese aggression, many of the prints were either an…